Creating Connections

Igniting Change

Ms. Foundation for Women

Annual Report
2007 - 2008
Revised August 11, 2010
For nearly four decades,
the Ms. Foundation for
women has seeded and
strengthened movements
and supported cutting-
edge, grassroots women’s
organizing at important
moments in our nation’s
history. Drawing on this
legacy, we will meet the
challenges and
opportunities ahead.
Letter from the Board Chair and President & CEO
Katie Grover Sara K. Gould
Dear Friends,
For many, last year’s elections demonstrated the power of
a new 21st century connectedness, linking diverse voices
from all corners of the country to ensure that those long
excluded from centers of power would finally have a say.
Creating connections for powerful, inclusive change is at
the heart of the Ms. Foundation for Women’s approach.
It has long been our practice to support the efforts of low-
income women and women of color to reach decision-
making tables at all levels. Today, as our country tackles
a host of urgent issues, their leadership is more vital than
ever.
In fact, our 2007-2008 grantees illustrate the critical
difference women who are most marginalized by race and
class make in changing policy and our broader culture.
In rural South Texas, for example, migrant women
farmworkers knew that access to transportation was key to
their reproductive health. If women couldn’t get to a clinic,
what did it matter if it existed at all? So, they organized,
created La Voz Latina (Voice of Latinas, a project of
Migrant Health Promotion) with Ms. Foundation support,
and advocated before local officials to secure funds for
regular, affordable bus service that would put their isolated
communities on the map. Today, thanks to training from
the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
(nlirh), a sister grantee with whom they connected at
a Ms. Foundation gathering, they’re now learning to
navigate the Texas Legislature and to promote policies
that address the priorities of immigrant and low-income
women across the entire state.
Creating Connections: Strategies for
Stronger Movements
Each year, in addition to delivering over $4 million
in grantmaking, the Ms. Foundation brings together
grassroots and national groups like La Voz Latina and
nlirh to learn from and network with one another, to
strategize, and ultimately, to build and strengthen powerful
social movements.
At the Ms. Foundation, we believe that cultivating these
kinds of connections is essential to strengthening our
democracy and bringing about the just and safe world we
strive to create.
That’s why in 2008, we launched a new framework for our
philanthropy, Creating Connections: Strategies for Stronger
Movements. The Ms. Foundation has always linked activists
and donors, and recognized the connections among the
myriad issues women face in their daily lives. But today,
we are supporting new and deeper connections—across
race, class and gender, and across issues, constituencies
and policymaking levels—to build greater power to ignite
inclusive, equitable change.
Indeed, the complexity of the challenges before us—from
economic insecurity to broken health care, criminal justice
and immigration systems—necessitates a creative, strategic
approach.
Across the country, our grantees create connections for
more just solutions every day. For example, the Alabama
Women’s Resource Network knows that women’s
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“Today we are supporting new and deeper connections to build greater power to ignite inclusive,
equitable change.”
incarceration is directly connected to poverty, domestic
violence and substance abuse. With support from the
Ms. Foundation, they’re building power by connecting
incarcerated women, social service providers, abuse
counselors and advocates, reducing the number of women
in prison in Alabama and creating a broader base of
support for healthier, community-based alternatives to
incarceration.
Making This Moment Count
Without doubt, the 2008 elections created a tremendous
opportunity for progressive policy and culture change and
new engagement with the grassroots. In fact, during the
transition to Barack Obama’s presidency, the National
Women’s Health Network (a founding member of
Raising Women’s Voices), Wider Opportunities for
Women, world (Women Organized to Respond to
Life-Threatening Disease) and several other grantees were
invited to share their ideas with the new administration—
on issues from health care reform and green jobs to HIV/
AIDS. A year ago, it was hard to believe this would have
been the case. What a cause for celebration!
Today, however, we face a renewed backlash, a reminder
that we must relentlessly forge connections of all kinds to
ensure a powerful base capable of holding policymakers
accountable and ushering in true progressive change. Most
importantly, we must make sure that the voices of women
organizers are heard. As new policies are introduced and
battles are fought, their wisdom will be crucial.
Moving forward, the Ms. Foundation will continue to
elevate grassroots women’s voices and connect them to
federal policymaking tables so that they’re an even greater
force to be reckoned with on a national scale.
For nearly four decades, the Ms. Foundation has seeded
and strengthened movements and supported cutting-edge,
grassroots women’s organizing at important moments in
our nation’s history. Drawing on this legacy, we will meet
the challenges and opportunities ahead.
And, as careful students of history, we know how
important it is to take stock of victories along the way.
Today, we continue to bask in the groundbreaking glow
of our first African American President and our first Latina
Supreme Court Justice!
With you by our side, we know we will celebrate new
victories ahead. Together, we will make every moment
count.
We see the path. The more we create connections for the
common good, the more successful—and wiser—we’ll all
be. The more we lift women’s voices, the more collective
power we’ll have to realize our vision of a just and safe
world and an equitable and inclusive democracy in our
country.
Katie Grover Sara K. Gould
Board Chair President & CEO
Fall 2009
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Building Power, Building Voice:
Migrant Women Farmworkers Take the Lead
In South Texas, just miles from the U.S.-Mexico border,
colonias, unincorporated communities that lack basic
services like electricity, sewage, potable water or paved
roads, dot the landscape. Immigrants—women and
men—in search of work in onion or citrus fields, settle
here, often with their families. In fact, 97 percent of
women farmworkers are accompanied by their children.
But while striving to improve their lives, migrant workers
face innumerable barriers to economic security and good
health—from lack of health insurance to poverty wages
and fear of deportation.
“We work in rural areas where women are afraid to come
out,” says Lucy Félix, program coordinator of La Voz
Latina. In 2001, with crucial seed money from the Ms.
Foundation for Women, migrant women—who bear
the brunt of poor health in their communities—and
local heath workers, or promotoras, founded La Voz
Latina (Voice of Latinas), a project of Migrant Health
Graciela Camarena worked as a
migrant farmworker before becoming
a promotora de salud for Migrant Health
Promotion and now associate director. 
April 2008
Promotion (mhp). Using grassroots organizing and
popular education, they would build the leadership
and power of migrant women farmworkers to advocate
for their reproductive rights and access to reproductive
health care. “We knock on their doors and invite them to
community meetings. We make them feel important and
that their voice should be heard,” says Lucy, herself the
daughter of a farmworker.
Connecting Issues for Justice
La Voz Latina (lvl) knew that they would have to fight
many battles to ensure women’s access to reproductive
care. But early on, they identified a lack of public
transportation as the primary barrier. Even if health
services existed, what did it matter if a woman couldn’t
reach them?
So lvl organized to connect women to the few clinics
that do operate along the U.S.-Mexico border. They
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“It was a dream come true, to be in the offices of Congresspersons speaking about the importance of women’s
reproductive health.”
mobilized women they’d spent years developing
relationships with in the colonias, organized a rally
which drew the attention of local media, and met with
representatives of the local transportation authority,
Rio Transit, to press their case. It turned out that their
colonias were so remote and neglected that they weren’t on
any of Rio Transit’s regional maps. But that would soon
change.
In 2007, as a result of lvl’s tireless advocacy, Rio Transit
began offering regular bus service to five colonias. But lvl
didn’t stop there. Each year, they lobby for the expansion
of service. Today, partnering with the Brownsville Urban
Transportation System as well, they’ve secured public
transportation for nine colonias, connecting thousands of
women to reproductive and primary care.
lvl credits the Ms. Foundation with its long-term
support for their advocacy, based on the Foundation’s
belief that linking issues is a powerful strategy for
change. According to Lucy Félix, the Ms. Foundation,
unlike many other funders, “sees that transportation is a
women’s issue and a social justice issue.”
Building Leadership, Building Power
lvl came to address transportation to promote women’s
health because they build women’s leadership to advance
solutions rooted in their experience along the U.S.-
Mexico border. Day after day, lvl connects women to
resources and to one another, building their collective
power to ignite change—from the local transportation
authority to the U.S. Congress—that will make a
difference in their own lives.
To date, lvl has trained over 100 active community
leaders. Following the promotora model, which contends
that community members are best positioned to promote
community health, lvl trains local women to conduct
organizing and outreach in their own communities,
building trusted leaders who promote lvl’s work.
Community leaders help lvl staff reach over 1,000
women directly each year.
In October 2007, one such community leader, Elva
Mireles, joined lvl staff members Lucy Félix and Maria
Treviño on a lobbying expedition to Washington, DC
organized by another Ms. Foundation grantee, the
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
(nlirh). lvl and nlirh visited Texas legislators to
advocate for immigration reform and increased funding
for reproductive health services and education. One of
lvl’s primary goals is to restore cuts to reproductive
health care made by the Texas Legislature in 2007.
The Ms. Foundation introduced lvl to nlirh at a
grantee gathering. Since then, they’ve developed a lasting
relationship that strengthens both organizations: nlirh
shares its national expertise with lvl and colonia residents
through advocacy trainings and other opportunities while
nlirh’s deepens its understanding of migrant women
farmworkers’ priorities and brings their perspectives to
organizing nationwide.
After her visit to Washington, Elva remarked proudly:
“I never in my dreams imagined myself in the Capitol,
speaking with political authorities. It was a dream come
true, to be in the offices of Congresspersons speaking
about the importance of women’s reproductive health, to
be the spokesperson for women who live in the Valley.”
Policy Change for Systems Change
lvl builds women’s collective power to change policies;
this is how they know they’ll tackle the root causes of the
injustices migrant women face. “We all know that policy
change is where systems change takes place,” says Gayle
Lawn-Day, executive director of mhp. Changing a system
that perpetuates poverty and poor health is not easy, of
course. But whether knocking on the doors of family
homes or federal offices, lvl is creating a force for change
that is bringing hundreds of women out of isolation to
advance policies intended to ensure their full access to
reproductive rights, health and justice.
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Domestic Workers, Global Impact:
Domestic Workers United Campaigns for Rights
“We work in an industry where people are being treated
like slaves,” Lois Newland, a nanny working in New York
and originally from Jamaica, told Women’s eNews. “We’re
not shackled, but we have to work long hours, and have
employees working eight, nine years then discarded, and
terminated without any compensation.”
As far back as slavery, in fact, and continuing today,
domestic workers like Lois have been excluded from state
and federal labor protections afforded to nearly every other
worker. At the whim of individual employers who aren’t
required to provide a living wage, basic benefits or to
treat their employees fairly, domestic workers—primarily
immigrant women of color—face widespread abuse and
exploitation. In fact, multiple examples, from being forced
to sleep in a basement with sewage overflow, to having
one’s passport stolen and forced to work without pay,
outline nothing less than a human rights crisis.
Domestic workers march to the
United Nations in New York City to bring
international attention to human rights
abuses in the homes of UN diplomats.
October 2008
Thanks to the advocacy of Domestic Workers United
(dwu), however, a New York City-based grassroots
organization led by over 2,300 nannies, housekeepers
and elderly caregivers, the law may soon be on domestic
workers’ side—not just in New York, but across the U.S.
Setting a Precedent for Justice Nationwide
Since they set up shop in a small office in the Bronx, dwu
has grown quickly. With critical support from the Ms.
Foundation for Women throughout its development,
dwu has become a strong, sustainable organization capable
of galvanizing a movement and bringing New York State
to the brink of unprecedented change.
In 2003, dwu persuaded the New York City Council
to pass the first bill in the country to expand domestic
workers’ labor protections. Next, they moved quickly to
write and lobby for state legislation, the Domestic Workers
Bill of Rights, which would guarantee basic labor standards
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“We work in an industry where people are being treated like slaves,” Lois Newland, a nanny working in New
York and originally from Jamaica, told Women’s eNews. “We’re not shackled, but we have to work long hours,
and have employees working eight, nine years then discarded, and terminated without any compensation.”
including a living wage, overtime, paid vacation and sick
days, and health care coverage for the roughly 200,000
domestic workers across New York State.
Today, in 2009, dwu is closer to victory than ever before.
Key protections outlined in the Bill of Rights have been
passed by the New York State Assembly, and a more
comprehensive version, including paid sick days, awaits
passage by the Senate. In June 2009, New York Governor
David Paterson publicly stated that if the Bill of Rights
reached his desk, he’d sign it into law.
If passed, the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights would set
a national precedent and encourage other states to follow
suit. Domestic worker organizations across the U.S. are
already using the bill as a model in their states, hoping
to extend labor protections to the estimated 2 million
domestic workers nationwide.
A Winning Strategy
From its beginning, dwu knew that they’d need to
develop relationships with labor, immigrants’ rights and
other groups across the social justice spectrum. To win,
they’d need to encourage others to see domestic workers’
struggle as their own.
And “winning” would mean more than one policy.
Ultimately, they’d create lasting connections across issues,
organizations and constituencies to build a more inclusive
progressive movement in which immigrant women of
color would play a leadership role. Together, they’d
have more power to create equitable, sustainable change
for all workers and hold policymakers accountable over
the long haul.
Ai-Jen Poo, lead organizer of dwu, is grateful to those who
have helped echo domestic workers’ urgent call. “Thanks in
part to joint visits by domestic workers and our allies to the
state capital, there is not a legislator left who is unfamiliar
with the lack of legal protections for domestic workers.”
Today, the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights has over
80 organizational co-sponsors, including key players in
the labor movement. In 2008, afl-cio President John
Sweeney accompanied dwu members to testify before state
lawmakers in favor of the bill, sending a powerful message
on behalf of 10 million afl-cio members nationwide.
Meanwhile domestic workers are strengthening the
broader progressive landscape, drawing on experiences at
the crossroads of gender, race, class and immigration to
promote just solutions that improve everyone’s lives.
“What we see—and what others are beginning to see—is
that being a woman, an immigrant, and a low-wage worker
in an unprotected industry is incredibly powerful,” says Ai-
Jen. “When you experience so many aspects of inequality,
you’re in a really strong position to imagine something
different, something better, a better future that doesn’t
leave anybody behind.”
Building Power for a Better Future
dwu is truly determined to imagine a future—and a
movement—that leaves no one behind. In 2007, with
support from the Ms. Foundation, dwu members
joined the U.S. Social Forum, a national gathering of
social justice activists. There they connected with other
domestic worker advocates to form the National Domestic
Workers Alliance, a coalition of 19 groups from 10 cities.
In 2008, dwu hosted the first-ever National Domestic
Workers Congress. Today the National Alliance is crafting
recommendations to send to U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda
Solis and connecting with domestic workers around the
world to ensure they have a seat at the International Labor
Organization.
In less than a decade, dwu has gone from a fledgling
organization to the author of championed, historic state
legislation and a leader in a national and global movement.
A movement led by and for a growing tide of women
laborers who are coming out of the shadows, no longer
isolated in their homes, no longer afraid to fight for their
rights. Building the power and visibility of immigrant
women of color workers at decision-making tables
worldwide, dwu is sparking groundbreaking change that
will benefit generations to come.
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Breaking Ground on the Gulf Coast:
Creating Connections to Widen
Opportunities for Women in Construction
Long before the country as a whole was turning to “shovel-
ready” jobs to stimulate economic recovery, people on
the Gulf Coast were looking to construction and related
trades to boost employment and rebuild communities
after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But across the country,
women had faced discrimination and other barriers to
these fields for years. So how would women in Mississippi
and Louisiana, especially low-income women and women
of color who were in greatest need of living-wage jobs,
benefit from a construction boom?
With women representing less than three percent of
workers in building trades nationwide, the answer certainly
wouldn’t be easy. But soon after the storms hit in 2005,
the Ms. Foundation for Women began funding long-
time grantee Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW),
a national organization based in Washington, DC with
expertise in promoting women’s access to building trades,
to lay the groundwork for a solution.
Sabrina Graley, a graduate of the Women
in Construction training program, works
on her first job in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
December 2008
From decades of experience, WOW knew that with the
right skills and support, women could help rebuild
communities—and their own lives. Indeed, higher wages
offered in construction and related trades were in high
demand after the hurricanes decimated tourism and other
industries that typically employ women, and with single
women-led families in Mississippi earning an average
yearly income of $16,547.
Connecting National Experience to
Grassroots Expertise
Understanding the importance of rooting a solution in
community wisdom, WOW set out to link their national
experience to grassroots expertise on the Gulf Coast. They
found a perfect partner in Moore Community House
(MCH), a community-development organization in Biloxi,
Mississippi which worked closely with low-income women
and women of color and had a deep understanding of the
challenges they faced.
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“Wider Opportunities for Women knew that with the right skills and support, women could help rebuild
communities—and their own lives.”
WOW suggested that, together, they design a program that
would equip women with construction skills and offer
critical resources to build and sustain women’s economic
security over the long haul. MCH was quickly on board;
they assessed local interest among women and contractors
alike—in fact, it turned out that demand significantly
outpaced the number of available skilled workers
throughout the region.
Breaking New Ground
In 2008, after conducting research and an initial pilot
phase with critical support from WOW, MCH launched
Women in Construction (WinC), the first construction
training program for women on the Gulf Coast.
In WinC’s first year, 50 women graduated with entry-
level skills. Women like Sabrina Graley, a mother of two
and graduate of WinC’s second class, who found a job
with a commercial contracting company as a carpenter’s
helper and helped rebuild an historic church in Bay St.
Louis, MS.
Today, WinC has the capacity to train 60-80 women, and
a waiting list of 265 women. Despite its small size, it has
received recognition from state and national officials. The
U.S. Department of Labor now lists WinC as a source
for federal contractors looking to hire women and people
of color, and after learning of the project upon a visit
by WOW and MCH to Washington, DC, a Mississippi
Congressperson was so impressed that he began
supporting a line item for it.
Connecting Critical Issues in Women’s Lives
WinC has succeeded not only because it teaches women
to operate heavy machinery, but also because it makes
connections among the multiple barriers women face in
securing and sustaining jobs in “non-traditional” fields.
WinC links physical infrastructure to social infrastructure,
offering mentoring and other resources, in addition to
skills-building, that help women succeed.
WOW and MCH knew, for instance, that a lack of public
transportation and quality, affordable child care, coupled
with pervasive bias against women in the construction
industry, would make it extremely difficult for women,
especially low-income single mothers to find and keep a
job. So they offered financial stipends for transportation
and child care and equipped women with job placement
assistance and tools to defend themselves against hostility
and harassment. They also began working with employers
to improve their treatment of women in the workplace
and uphold anti-discrimination laws.
Constructing a Livable, Equitable Future
Ultimately, the goal of WinC’s founding partners is to
change policies and culture so that all women are welcome
and respected on construction sites and have fair access
to living wages in up-and-coming industries like green
jobs—on the Gulf Coast and nationwide.
“We need to show that there are plenty of women out
there who, with appropriate resources directed to job
training and outreach, are shovel-ready just like the jobs
themselves,” says Joan Kuriansky, executive director of
WOW. The achievements of WinC and similar programs
go a long way towards dispelling the myth that women
can’t lay pipes or roads alongside men, and can be a
model to ensure women’s access to new and emerging
opportunities in physical infrastructure across the U.S.
Back in Mississippi, as recovery from Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita continues, WinC graduates are doing their part
to shift cultural expectations in the home, community
and workplace to make it easier for the next generation
of women builders. When they envision a more livable,
equitable future, many have their own children in mind:
at just one-year-old, the daughter of WinC student Kaya
Blaylock can be seen playing comfortably with a toy
hammer and saw in hand.
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Across the country, our grantees
create connections for more just
solutions every day.

A participant in Urban Word NYC’s Women Reborn

workshop performs spoken word for the group.
October 2008
fiscal year 2007 grants
(July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007)
Economic Justice Fairy Godmother Fund
Collaborative Fund for Women’s
Economic Development,
Third Round
Anew America Community Corporation
Berkeley, CA
To support the Women’s Business Center,
through which women and their families
participate in a three-year program including
business incubation and training, asset-building
and matching individual development accounts.
Corporation for Enterprise
Development
Washington, DC
To provide support to be a Learning
Conference Partner in the 2006 Assets
Learning Conference, “A Lifetime of
Assets: Building Families, Communities and
Economies,” in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Edge Connection
Kennesaw, GA
To support phase one of the Enterprise
Center business incubator program to serve
women entrepreneurs and help them grow
their businesses through increased services and
access to new markets.
Micro Business Development
Corporation
Denver, CO
To support a customized business development
program for women entrepreneurs, integrating
access to markets, resources and capital. To
strengthen a women’s initiative program and
build the sustainability of entrepreneurs.
Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative
Corporation
Milwaukee, WI
To support the program, Jobs, Opportunity,
Hope: The Microenterprise Development
Continuum, to build capacity for outreach,
lending, financial awareness and business
education classes.
Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency
Team
Albuquerque, NM
To support Marketlink Online, designed to
assist low-income, rural entrepreneurs to
increase sales by at least 50 percent each year
through marketing training and by creating
access to new markets.
Women’s Economic Ventures
Santa Barbara, CA
To expand staff capacity to provide more
advanced training programs and support for
women to grow their businesses.
Women’s Initiative for Self Employment
San Francisco, CA
To increase organizational sustainability,
strengthen services for business expansion and
expand core services to a larger client base. To
build a replicable training model that balances
investment, impact and sustainability.
Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network
Bethlehem, NH
To support the Wingspan Project to develop
and sustain women entrepreneurs in rural
areas through increases in networking and
marketing support.
YWCA of Anchorage
Anchorage, AK
To support the Alaska Microenterprise
Incubation Center, a new initiative created to
help women-owned startups overcome the
business and emotional challenges of operating
a sustainable company.
Anew America Community Corporation
Berkeley, CA
To support the expansion and new marketing
campaign of HP Pottery, a woman-owned
$30,000 business and provider of high-quality pottery.
The Edge Connection
Kennesaw, GA
To support Life Evolutions, a health care
practice that offers health counseling services
to individuals experiencing a mental, physical
or developmental challenge, with its expansion
$1,000 and web development costs.
El Puente Community Development
Corporation
El Paso, TX
To support Centro Mayapán, a social-purpose
business dedicated to launching and operating
business divisions with products and services
rooted in Mexican cultural heritage.
$40,000
Micro Business Development
Corporation
Denver, CO
To support Tropical Items Madagascar, a
business that imports handmade and fair trade
crafts made of high quality natural raffia fibers
from NGOs based in Madagascar.
$40,000
Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency
Team
Albuquerque, NM
To support Sube, Inc., an international
company that grew out of a community need
for kids to learn Spanish in Taos, New Mexico.
Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network
$40,000 Bethlehem, NH
To support the Center for Balanced Health, a
holistic health practice offering Aryuveda, yoga
and counseling services.
Women’s Health
Reproductive Rights, Health
and Justice
$40,000
Abortion Access Project
Cambridge, MA
To provide two years of general operating
support for the Training and Access Working
Group.
Above the Frey
Brooklyn, NY
To provide technical assistance, promotional
$30,000 outreach and events featuring the work of
women advocating for reproductive justice and
HIV/AIDS policy change.
ACCESS/Women’s Health Rights
Coalition
$40,000 Oakland, CA
To support Raising Voices, Expanding Access,
a strategic base-building and mobilization effort
that engages constituents in proactive advocacy
campaigns and builds women’s power to have
a voice in policy debates.
ACCESS/Women’s Health Rights
$30,000 Coalition
Oakland, CA
To support Raising Voices, Expanding Access,
a strategic base-building and mobilization effort
that engages constituents in proactive advocacy
campaigns and builds women’s power to have
$40,000 a voice in policy debates.
ACCESS/Women’s Health Rights $30,000
Coalition
$3,000 Oakland, CA
To support Raising Voices, Expanding Access,
a strategic base-building and mobilization effort
that engages constituents in proactive advocacy
campaigns and builds women’s power to have
$3,000 a voice in policy debates.
ACT for Women and Girls $25,000
Visalia, CA
To support a partnership with Planned
Parenthood Mar Monte and the formation
of the Central Valley Alliance for Women
and Justice to conduct community outreach
$3,000 campaigns about the impact of early California
primaries on reproductive justice.
California Coalition for Reproductive $40,000
Freedom
Sacramento, CA
To provide two years of general support in
building a strong coalition that maximizes the
$3,000 effectiveness of member groups in preserving
reproductive and sexual health and rights.
California Latinas for Reproductive $40,000
Justice
Los Angeles, CA
To provide general support to promote the
reproductive and sexual health, rights and
$3,000 justice of underserved Latina populations in
California.
Choice USA $5,000
Washington, DC
To provide general support for training and
research by Choice USA to further the work of
Ms. Foundation grantees.
$3,000
Choice USA $15,000
Washington, DC
To support the Southwest Partnership, a joint
project of Choice USA and the National Latina
Institute for Reproductive Health, which
works to advance institutional change at the
intersection of reproductive health and social
justice and develop the next generation of
reproductive justice leaders.
$20,000
Colorado Organization for Latina $40,000
Opportunity and Reproductive Rights
(color)
Denver, CO
To provide general support for public
$8,000 education and advocacy efforts, including the
civic engagement of young Latinas, and to
bridge the gap between COLOR members and
other social justice movements.
Georgians for Choice $35,000
Atlanta, GA
$3,500 To provide general support for efforts
to involve traditionally marginalized
populations—women of color, LGBTQ
people and youth— in the reproductive justice
movement.
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health $40,000
Chicago, IL
To provide general support for combining
$5,000 legislative strategies with youth mobilization
efforts to craft policies that reflect the needs of
young people.
Migrant Health Promotion $50,000
Weslaco, TX
To support the project La Voz Latina to
expand local leadership and active grassroots
participation among migrant women
farmworkers to advocate for their reproductive
rights and health.
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Missouri Religious Coalition for
Reproductive Choice
St. Louis, MO
To provide general support for community
outreach and advocacy programs including
Black Church Initiative, Clergy for Choice, and
Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom.
NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
To support the New Mexico Reproductive
Health Access Project, which organizes
and facilitates workshops for wide-ranging
communities across the state.
National Advocates for Pregnant
Women
New York, NY
To support the “National Summit to Ensure
the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and
Birthing Women,” which brings together
people of different disciplines, faith and
ideology to share knowledge and experiences
that support pregnant women and their
families.
National Advocates for Pregnant
Women
New York, NY
To provide general support for broad-based
coalition-building, reframing, organizing
and advocacy begun at the “2007 National
Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of
Pregnant and Birthing Women.”
National Latina Institute for
Reproductive Health
New York, NY
To provide general support for community
mobilization and policy advocacy.
Odyssey Youth Center
Spokane, WA
To provide technical assistance for a goal-
setting and strategy training with organizational
staff and board members.
Odyssey Youth Center
Spokane, WA
To support community outreach, school policy
work and youth-development activities.
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
New York, NY
To support a briefing book on the intersection
of social justice and reproductive rights to be
distributed at the 2007 US Social Forum.
SisterSong, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
To support SisterSong’s second annual
conference, “Let’s Talk About Sex,” held in
Chicago, May 2007.
SisterSong, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
To support a briefing book on the intersection
of social justice and reproductive rights to be
distributed at the 2007 US Social Forum.
Trustees of Hampshire College
Amherst, MA
To provide two years of project support for
the Center for Civil Liberty and Public Policy’s
New Leadership Networking Initiative, which
helps to develop and support youth leadership
in the reproductive justice movement.
West Virginia Free
Charleston, WV
To provide general support to help ensure
reproductive freedom, mobilize pro-choice
support in West Virginia, defeat anti-choice
legislation, and launch a statewide media and
public education campaign.
$40,000 Western States Center
Portland, OR
To support the Gender Justice Program,
which works to develop a strong network of
organizations using a multi-issue, gender-justice
analysis and approach to organizing.
Women’s Law Project $30,000
$25,000 Philadelphia, PA
To provide general support to protect and
enhance reproductive health care services
for all Pennsylvanians, including access to
comprehensive reproductive care.
Women’s Voices for the Earth $40,000
$5,000 Missoula, MT
To provide general support to enhance
national work at the intersection of women’s
and environmental health movements and
to replicate Montana-based projects in
neighboring rural, Western states.
Women and AIDS
Above the Frey
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000 To support technical-assistance training,
promotional outreach, and events featuring
the work of women activists advocating for
reproductive health, rights and HIV/AIDS.
African Services Committee, Inc. $20,000
New York, NY
To support the Immigrant Women Advocacy
Program, which, by equipping participants with
$25,000 an understanding of their rights and a practical
skills set, enables participants to develop a new,
proactive approach to obstacles in their lives.
AIDS Services of Austin, Inc. $25,000
Austin, TX
$4,000 To provide general support to the Women
Rising Project, including support for the hiring
of two part-time peer coordinators who will
foster increased leadership among women
members of the project.
Capital District African American $15,000
$50,000
Coalition on AIDS
Albany, NY
To support A Woman’s Journey: The
Leadership Model, a training program for
$10,000 women interested in conducting community
education forums and building women’s power
to address the impact of the HIV/AIDS
epidemic on women.
Christie’s Place $10,000
San Diego, CA
$7,500
To support Transformations—The Sisterhood
Project, the HIV advocacy and leadership-
development division of the organization.
Christie’s Place
San Diego, CA $15,000
$1,000
To support Transformations—The Sisterhood
Project, the HIV advocacy and leadership-
development division of the organization.
Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization $15,000
Project (CHAMP)
$20,000
New York, NY
To support CHAMP’s Prevention Justice
Partnership in providing technical assistance
to Ms. Foundation grantee, Mujeres Unidas
Contra El SIDA, in San Antonio, TX.
HIV Law Project $10,000
New York, NY
$50,000
To support a two-year effort to establish
a vocal, national presence on HIV-related
women’s issues, with an emphasis on issues
that affect immigrant women.
$20,000 Mujeres Unidas Contra el SIDA $25,000
San Antonio, TX
To support the project, Saber es PODER
(Knowledge is Power), which encourages
peer educators to participate in local, state and
national HIV advocacy campaigns.
National Association of People with $5,000
AIDS
Silver Spring, MD
To support Ms. Foundation grantees’
attendance at NAPWA’s Staying Alive 2006
Summit: Access Matters.
Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS $25,000
Research and Treatment (SMART)
New York, NY
To provide general support to continue
community building and advocacy work with,
by and for HIV-positive women.
Southwest Boulevard Family Health $15,000
Care
Kansas City, KS
$7,000
To support the education and build the power
of women and girls to become active in their
health care, to reduce HIV transmission, and
to develop individual and community advocacy
skills.
Women Alive Coalition $10,000
Los Angeles, CA
To support Sisters Alive, an advocacy program
that engages and recruits women of color in the
Los Angeles area who are infected and affected
by HIV/AIDS.
Women Alive Coalition $15,000
Los Angeles, CA
To support Sisters Alive, an advocacy program
which engages and recruits women of color
in the Los Angeles area who are infected and
affected by HIV/AIDS.
Women Organized to Respond to Life- $15,000
Threatening Diseases (WORLD)
Oakland, CA
To provide general support for the
organization’s executive director and staff
to focus on HIV advocacy issues and policy
change.
Women Organized to Respond to $10,000
Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD)
Oakland, CA
To provide general support for the executive
director and staff to focus on HIV advocacy
issues and policy change.
Women’s Lighthouse Project $15,000
Aurora, CO
To provide general support to increase overall
organizational capacity and to further elevate
the voices of community women living with
and affected by HIV.
Building Democracy
Funding Exchange $10,000
New York, NY
To support the provision of travel stipends
for a delegation to the 2007 US Social Forum
specifically focused on linking the women’s
movement and the social justice movement.
Latina Initiative $12,000
Denver, CO
To provide general support for GOTV efforts,
including expanding community visibility
and voter outreach and mobilization efforts
among Latinas in Denver, Boulder and Adams
Counties.
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Foundation
Seattle, WA
To support NARAL’s Infrequent Women
Voter Turnout Project.
Women’s Law Project
Philadelphia, PA
To support the WomenVote PA coalition,
including voter registration and education
efforts with more than 60 organizational
partners across Pennsylvania.
Women’s Opportunity and Resource
Development, Inc.
Missoula, MT
To provide general support for operations,
specifically for constituent organizer salaries,
printing vote-by-mail pieces and voter guides.
Democracy Funding Circle
Children’s Defense Fund, Southern
Rural Black Women’s Initiative
Jackson, MS
To support projects such as the Cultural
Heritage Corridor and the Black Women’s
Hall of Fame, vehicles to interpret, link and
promote cultural and historical resources on the
influence of Southern rural black women.
Critical Resistance
Oakland, CA
To support movement building to reduce
reliance on imprisonment, shift public opinion
and media, and develop leadership among those
most impacted by the prison industrial complex.
Delaware Valley Association for the
Education of Young Children
Philadelphia, PA
To increase support for childcare services
in the community, the legislature and the
administration, and to build the power of low-
income women to advocate more strongly for
themselves and their children.
Drug Sense
Irvine, CA
To educate Congress and those in positions of
power on the drug war.
Idaho Women’s Network
Boise, ID
To increase civic engagement and shape public
policy and multi-issue coalition-building with
traditional and non-traditional allies. To build
upon previous work to protect women’s rights
within a human rights context.
Interfaith Alliance of Idaho
Boise, ID
To strengthen the organization’s existing
base and increase membership statewide by
creating Democracy Circles: Building Beloved
Communities, an organized network of local
groups of people of faith.
Low-Income Families’ Empowerment
through Education (LIFETIME)
San Leandro, CA
To build the power of low-income mothers
throughout California to learn about, enroll
in and pursue post-secondary education and
training programs that will move them beyond
low-wage, entry-level jobs to career-path
employment.
Montana Human Rights Network
Helena, MT
To strengthen grassroots organizing, research
the right wing and conduct policy advocacy
on behalf of LGBTQ people’s civil rights. To
support coalition efforts focused on developing
a strong local constituency for human rights.
National Network for Immigrant &
Refugee Rights
Oakland, CA
To support community education hearings with
public officials; nationwide media efforts to
inject immigrant rights into election issues; and
community dialogues about the situation on the
US-Mexico border.
$12,000 Partnership for Safety and Justice
Portland, OR
To support base-building, membership
development and political education among the
organization’s constituency; to deepen alliances
and expand a network of groups committed to
$12,000 changing incarceration policies.
Progressive Leadership Alliance of $14,000
Nevada (PLAN)
Reno, NV
To support civic engagement and leadership
development of youth, immigrants and
$12,000 women in Nevada on a range of issues
including immigration, the environment,
campaign finance reform, economic justice and
reproductive rights.
Rural Organizing Project $15,000
Scappoose, OR
To hold policymakers accountable, build
stronger bridges with the poor and working
$14,000
class, and continue to engage people opposed
to the war in a broader conversation.
Wider Opportunities for Women $14,000
Washington, DC
To promote social and economic equity for
low-income women in Alabama, Georgia and
Louisiana and to expand into Mississippi and
Florida.
$14,000
Katrina Women’s Response Fund
ACLU of Mississippi $20,000
Jackson, MS
To support the ACLU’s provision of technical,
legal and procedural assistance to several Ms.
$11,000 Foundation grantees working on issues such as
housing, town hall meeting facilitation, school
disciplinary hearings and access to public
records after Hurricane Katrina.
ACLU of Mississippi
Jackson, MS
To provide capacity-building support for
rebuilding schools after Hurricane Katrina and
$14,000 to help create awareness among individuals
about how local government works and how to
impact public policy.
Action Communication and Education $20,000
$14,000 Reform
Duck Hill, MS
To support the Community Policy Research
and Training Institute in its development of
a strategic plan for regional public policy and
a scan of institutions and policy advocacy
initiatives across the Mid-South region,
prioritizing a race and gender lens.
$14,000
Boat People SOS $25,000
Falls Church, VA
To support the delivery of services and training
and to build the power of the Vietnamese
community in Alabama, Houston and New
Orleans, especially around issues pertaining
to policy and leadership development post-
$14,000
Katrina.
Children’s Defense Fund, Southern $25,000
Rural Black Women’s Initiative
Jackson, MS
To support a multi-strategy approach to
rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, with a
particular focus on women of color and civic
participation, and the building and expansion of
an apprenticeship program in coordination with
$14,000
unions and evacuee communities.
Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities
Jackson, MS
To provide capacity-building support to expand
opportunities and enhance quality of life for
children, adolescents and adults with disabilities,
as well as their families, after Hurricane Katrina.
$14,000
Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities $25,000
Jackson, MS
To support work on housing and mental
health needs of seniors with disabilities after
Hurricane Katrina.
Ms. Foundation for Women Annual Report 2007-2008
$14,000 Coastal Women for Change $5,000
Biloxi, MS
To provide general support for work involving
women from the East Biloxi community in
long-term issues related to the Hurricane
Katrina recovery effort.
Coastal Women for Change $10,000
Biloxi, MS
To support a retreat for 50 women survivors of
Hurricane Katrina.
Communications Consortium Media $10,000
Center
Washington, DC
To support a plan to initiate a communications
and media outreach program for a Gulf Coast
coalition organizing a community forum in
New Orleans focused on recovery and renewal
after Hurricane Katrina.
Common Ground Collective $10,000
Vallejo, CA
To support the rebuilding of basic
infrastructure post-Katrina as well as the
growth of the Women’s Center houses in New
Orleans, childcare initiatives, transportation,
and volunteer training and leadership.
Critical Resistance $5,000
New Orleans, LA
To provide general support to Critical
Resistance, which believes that providing
individuals with basic human necessities such as
nourishment, shelter, health care and freedom
is what truly makes for secure communities.
Efforts of Grace, Inc. $2,000
New Orleans, LA
To support a writing and development
workshop with fifteen local artists and Eve
Ensler. To underwrite direct costs associated
with the production and staging of “The
$5,000 Katrina Monologues.”
Efforts of Grace, Inc. $500
New Orleans, LA
To provide general support for the use of
community, culture and art to revive and
reclaim an historically significant corridor in
Central City, New Orleans.
Families and Friends of Louisiana’s $5,000
Incarcerated Children
New Orleans, LA
To provide capacity-building support for
campaign activities and leadership development
after Hurricane Katrina, including participation
in the Safe Streets Coalition, dedicated to
rebuilding the criminal justice system to ensure
safe communities.
Families and Friends of Louisiana’s $25,000
Incarcerated Children
New Orleans, LA
To support parent and student organizing
in New Orleans public schools that makes
connections between juvenile justice, school
reform and mental health needs in the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Gulf Coast Funders for Equity $12,000
New Orleans, LA
To support a pilot fund for emerging or under-
resourced community-based organizations in
coordination with GCFE members.
Institute for Women’s Policy Research $20,000
Washington, DC
To support IWPR’s research with the Social
$5,000 Science Research Council on the impact of a
70 percent loss in public housing stock after
Hurricane Katrina.
Institute for Women’s Policy Research $5,000
Washington, DC
To support continued work on a research
publication, “The Status of Women in New
Orleans.”
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Studies
New Orleans, LA
To provide general support for capacity-
building needs resulting from Hurricane
Katrina.
Jeremiah Group
Harvey, LA
To support housing advocacy and oversight
of the Road Home Recovery Plan and small
business development loans. To support efforts
to organize meetings with public officials about
Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery.
Lafayette Restoration Center
Lafayette, LA
To support work on rebuilding smaller,
community churches, and on running social
service programs and trainings for those
displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Lafayette Restoration Center
Lafayette, LA
To provide general support to a multi-service
mental health organization that assists families
displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Louisiana Disaster Recovery
Foundation
Baton Rouge, LA
To support Bishop Williams of the Lafayette
Restoration Center to become a Louisiana
Organizers Renewal Fund (LORA) Fellow.
Mississippi Immigrants’ Rights
Alliance
Jackson, MS
To provide capacity-building support for
leadership-development trainings and
campaigns after Hurricane Katrina.
Mississippi Immigrants’ Rights
Alliance
Jackson, MS
To support the expansion of legal advocacy
related to Hurricane Katrina, including
recovering lost wages for immigrant workers
brought to Mississippi under exploitative
rebuilding conditions.
Mississippi Low-Income Childcare
Initiative
Biloxi, MS
To support the rebuilding of the organization’s
childcare facility, enable it to reopen and begin
providing much-needed services to low-income
families after Hurricane Katrina.
Mississippi Workers’ Center for
Human Rights
Greenville, MS
To support work on housing policy and
discrimination cases, with a focus on protecting
the rights of low-income workers affected by
Hurricane Katrina.
Mississippi Workers’ Center for
Human Rights
Greenville, MS
To support work on housing policy and
discrimination cases, with a focus on protecting
the rights of low-income workers affected by
Hurricane Katrina.
NAACP Mississippi
Jackson, MS
To support strategic networking and leadership
trainings and programs for women elected
officials.
NAACP Mississippi
Jackson, MS
To support staff development and training for
a new coordinator of the organization’s women
of color roundtables.
NAACP Mississippi
Jackson, MS
To provide general support.
$5,000 National Coalition on Black Civic
Participation
Washington, DC
To support the Black Women’s Roundtable,
Black Youth Vote! programs, and the Sister
Vote Tour, a three-state civic engagement and
leadership training around equitable policy
$25,000 development for housing, jobs, health care and
mental health post-Katrina.
New Orleans Neighborhood
Development Collaborative
New Orleans, LA
To provide general support to expand the
production of quality, affordable housing and
$25,000 advocate for improved housing policies in the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
North Gulfport Community Land $15,000
Conservancy
Gulfport, MS
To support a housing restoration project in
$3,000 the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, including
the remodeling of a 1920s-era home that was
originally slated for demolition in early 2007 to
make way for a new commercial development.
Opportunity Agenda $17,000
New York, NY
$3,000 To support the New Orleans Media Training
Project, including message framing and media
strategy discussions, a videographer to create
and contribute short videos, and spokesperson
training.
St. Mary’s Community Action Agency $25,000
$5,000 Franklin, LA
To support work to secure housing for
the elderly and the disabled, and develop
trainings, services and certificate programs to
aid members in the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina.
$20,000 STEPS Coalition $15,000
Biloxi, MS
To support the development and training of
new staff and to provide capacity-building
support for campaign activities conducted by
member organizations, non-profit groups who
came together in 2006 to fight for equitable
recovery on the Gulf Coast.
$10,000 Turkey Creek Community Initiatives $25,000
Gulfport, MS
To support a comprehensive plan for recovery
in post-Katrina Mississippi with a focus
on housing, preservation and leadership
development.
Turkey Creek Community Initiatives
$23,000 Gulfport, MS
To provide general support for relief after
Hurricane Katrina as well as for ongoing
efforts related to cultural and environmental
conservation, restoration, education and
community planning.
Twenty-First Century Foundation
$2,000 New York, NY
To support work on the Hurricane Katrina
Memorial Celebration, a visual arts showcase
performance designed to provide New York-
based Gulf Coast Region artist-survivors with
an opportunity to share their art on a large
scale.
$25,000 United Houma Nation Relief Fund $25,000
Raceland, LA
To support community renewal events, the
development of business training sessions
for women, and re-granting to community
members to help them rebuild their homes
$5,000 after Hurricane Katrina.
Wider Opportunities for Women
Washington, DC
To support an assessment of the vocational
training needs in Biloxi and the development of
$500 a job training program best suited to supporting
the long-term needs of women of color and
low-income women in Biloxi post-Katrina.
$25,000 Wider Opportunities for Women $9,529
Washington, DC
To support an assessment of the vocational
training needs and the development of a
job training program best suited to support
the long-term needs of women of color and
low-income women in Biloxi, Mississippi after
Hurricane Katrina.
Women’s Funding Network $201,000
$500 San Francisco, CA
To support the launch of a new women’s fund
in New Orleans; to provide capacity-building
tools and training for women’s funds and their
grantees; and to support grantmaking for three
women’s funds on the Gulf Coast.
YWCA Baton Rouge $25,000
Baton Rouge, LA
To support work to deliver a range of social
services including after-school programs,
prenatal care, job training, health care and
transportation to those affected by Hurricane
Katrina, including the FEMA trailer park,
Renaissance Village.
Zion Traveler’s Cooperative $10,000
Braithwaite, LA
To provide general support for post-Katrina
initiatives including the rebuilding of homes,
temporary housing for displaced families, a
community health facility and direct action and
policy advocacy.
Sophia Fund
CAAAV Organizing Asian $10,000
Communities
Bronx, NY
To support CAAAV’s delegation of 40
domestic workers to the 2007 US Social
Forum.
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues $10,000
New York, NY
To provide general support to increase
institutional giving to LGBTQ communities.
Institute for Women’s Policy Research $10,000
Washington, DC
To support IWPR’s research with the Social
Science Research Council on the impact of a
70 percent loss of public housing stock after
Hurricane Katrina.
National Asian Pacific American $10,000
Women’s Forum
Brooklyn, NY
To support an Asian Pacific Islander
$5,000 Mobilization Day around immigration reform
and to insert a gender lens.
National Association of People with $15,000
AIDS
Silver Spring, MD
To support a Women’s Institute at a 2007
national AIDS conference, building on the
$3,000 2006 Women’s Institute at the NAPWA
Staying Alive Conference in New Orleans.
National Council for Research on $5,000
Women
New York, NY
To support a project on women’s perspectives
and priorities leading up to the 2006 mid-term
elections.
National Council for Research on $3,000
Women
New York, NY
To fund the participation of young women of
color in the Council’s annual conference.
National Council of Women’s $10,000
Organizations
$471
Washington, DC
To provide general support to address issues
of concern to women, including family and
work, economic equity, education, older
women, corporate accountability, women
and technology, reproductive freedom and
women’s health.
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Reproductive Health
New York, NY
To support the National Coalition of
Immigrant Women’s Rights.
National Women’s Law Center
Washington, DC
To provide general support for the litigation
of cases in state and federal courts and the
Supreme Court, and to educate the public
about ways to make the law and public policies
work for women.
Southeast Regional Economic Justice
Network
Durham, NC
To support a youth delegation to attend the
2007 US Social Forum.
Western States Center
Portland, OR
To support the State Legislator Education
project of MomsRising, an organization
working to increase economic security for
women and their families through civic
engagement.
Women and Philanthropy
Washington, DC
To provide general support for a network
and voice for positive change in the field of
philanthropy.
Women of Color Resource Center
Oakland, CA
To support an executive transition process and
to build organizational capacity.
Women’s Funding Network
San Francisco, CA
To provide general support to the Network,
which works to change society by improving
the status of women and girls locally, nationally
and internationally.
Ending Violence
Beyondmedia Education
Chicago, IL
To support the Chain of Change, a political
education and organizing project that harnesses
the power of viral video and social networking
in the fight against gender-based violence.
Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd.
New York, NY
To support Women Reborn Through Music,
Media & Culture, workshops which encourage
young women to safely and creatively respond
to issues of violence through media analysis,
critical discussion and art.
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
To support a publication of essays written by
young hip-hop writers and activists.
Community Partners
Los Angeles, CA
To provide general support for the creation
of a sustainable youth and female-led
organization to continue programming to
prevent gender-based violence.
Correctional Association of New York
New York, NY
To support the Women in Prison Project,
which works to ensure that criminal justice
policies do not perpetuate the cycle of violence
in women’s lives.
Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, KY
To support the Men Against Rape Society
(MARS), which works to develop an educated
community of men and women empowered to
discuss and prevent violence against women.
FIERCE
New York, NY
To provide general support to build the
leadership and power of LGBTQ youth of
color in New York City.
$20,000 GenderPAC
Washington, DC
To support Beyond Beats and Rhymes: Harlem
Dialogue on Race and Gender, which works
to educate both young consumers and media
makers about issues of gender, race and
$15,000 community values.
GenderPAC
Washington, DC
To support three GenderYOUTH initiatives:
Campus Chapters, Peer2Peer and Community
Partners, all of which provide the opportunity
for youth to conduct work around issues of
$5,000 sex, sexual orientation, race and class.
Girls Educational & Mentoring
Services, Inc.
New York, NY
To provide support for a youth-produced
$10,000 white paper and a briefing on youth leadership
to document, support and institutionalize
experimental youth leadership.
Helping Our Teen Girls in Real Life
Situations (HOTGIRLS)
Atlanta, GA
To support the FIREGIRL Project, which
$10,000 provides information, resources and
educational materials about street harassment
and gender-based violence that are developed
by African American women and girls through
two websites.
$5,000 Ina’ilan a Tama’ita’i, Inc.
Pago Pago, American Samoa
To support the development of a Child
Sexual Abuse Community Readiness Survey
to inform a plan of action to combat social
$10,000 and economic disparities in the territory by
addressing child sexual abuse.
Maniilaq Association
Kotzebue, AK
To support child sexual abuse community
outreach to improve communication across
villages and the subsequent development of a
large-scale, culturally appropriate community-
$40,000 based program.
Massachusetts Citizens for Children
Boston, MA
To support the Enough Abuse Campaign to
prevent child sexual abuse.
$10,000 Northwest Network of Bisexual,
Trans & Lesbian Survivors of Abuse
Seattle, WA
To support projects that develop a grassroots
response to domestic violence in the LGBTQ
community.
Palmetto Citizens Against Sexual
$5,000 Assault
Lancaster, SC
To support efforts to launch a public
awareness campaign, host a Child Safety Day
and conduct community forums focusing on
$25,000 child safety.
Peer Solutions, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
To support the Stand & Serve Central
Corridor Initiative, designed to shift language,
beliefs and behaviors in the areas of gender
$30,000 and sexuality based on needs and strategies
developed at the community level.
Project Pathfinder, Inc./Stop It Now!
Minnesota
St. Paul, MN
To support the Bystanders Intervention
$15,000 Project, which engages women in preventing
the sexual abuse of children and their families.
RightRides for Women’s Safety, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
To provide general support for engaging and
empowering vulnerable communities to end
$30,000 sexual assault through grassroots organizing.
$2,000 Rogers Park Community Council $10,000
Chicago, IL
To provide general support to mobilize young
women to take action on issues of sexual
violence within their community.
Sheila Wellstone Institute $20,000
St. Paul, MN
$30,000 To support community-based approaches to
gender-based violence prevention, focusing
in particular on Native and immigrant
communities.
Stop the Silence Stop Sexual Abuse, $5,000
Inc.
Glenn Dale, MD
$20,000 To support, through co-sponsorship, the 5th
annual Race to Stop the Silence: Stop Child
Sexual Abuse in Washington, DC on April
13, 2008.
Texas Association Against Sexual $20,000
Assault
Austin, TX
$40,000 To support Students Taking Action for
Respect, which aims to organize, train, and
support a self-sustaining statewide community
of sexual assault youth advocates.
Texas Council on Family Violence $20,000
Austin, TX
To support the People’s Empowerment
Project, enabling staff members to work
to prevent domestic and dating violence in
$30,000 communities through technical assistance and
site visits to microgrant recipients.
Third Sector New England $30,000
Boston, MA
To support the Manna in the Wilderness
Project, which provides faith-based
community outreach, education, community
$20,000 organizing, capacity-building, protocol
development, and technical assistance that
engage the faith community in ending
domestic violence.
Women and Girls Collective Action $20,000
Network
Chicago, IL
$30,000 To provide support for two programs:
Females United for Action and the
Community Accountability Project,
which enable women and girls to raise
consciousness, unite to build connections
$30,000 between communities, and build power to take
collective action.
Young Women’s Resource Center $30,000
Des Moines, IA
To support Stewards of Children, which
educates adults to prevent, recognize and react
$15,000 responsibly to child abuse, and motivates them
to courageous action.
Discretionary
President’s Discretionary Fund
Amethyst Women’s Project, Inc. $3,000
$15,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support the Amethyst Women’s Program, a
crisis intervention and referral project.
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for $650
Justice
New York, NY
To provide general support to an organization
$30,000 dedicated to helping lesbians and allied
communities challenge oppression and claim
their human rights.
Bella Abzug Leadership Institute $3,000
New York, NY
To support the conference, “Freedom On Our
$15,000 Terms,” which marked the 30th anniversary
of the original National Women’s Conference
in 1977.
Center for Community Change $3,000
Washington, DC
To support Dismantling a Community, a New
Orleans-based writing program, on behalf of
students participating in Students at the Center.
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Corporation for Enterprise $1,000 United Houma Nation Relief Fund $500 Marie C. Wilson Leadership
Development Raceland, LA Fund
Washington, DC To provide general support to help tribal
To enable the organization to be a Learning members return home and rebuild their Dads & Daughters $5,000
Conference Partner in the 2006 Assets communities after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Duluth, MN
Learning Conference, “A Lifetime of To support Dads & Daughters, a national
Assets: Building Families, Communities and The White House Project $300,000 advocacy group focused on fathering and
Economies.” New York, NY raising children, specifically girls.
To support the Women’s Leadership Fund.
Donors Forum of Wisconsin $5,000 Youth Empowerment Mission, Inc. $5,000
Milwaukee, WI The White House Project $300,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support the Brico Collaborative Fund, New York, NY To support the Blossom Program for Girls,
whose mission is to effect systemic change, To support the Women’s Leadership Fund. which addresses the needs of girls aged 11-21
changing attitudes, policies and societal that are in high-risk situations.
Women of Color Resource Center $5,000
patterns. Oakland, CA
International Museum of Women $2,500 To support an executive transition process and
San Francisco, CA build organizational capacity.
To provide general operating support to a Women’s eNews $5,000
groundbreaking social change museum that New York, NY
inspires global action, connects people across To provide general support to maintain and
borders and transforms hearts and minds by expand daily news coverage of issues of special
amplifying the voices of women worldwide. concern to women.
King Baudouin Foundation United $800 Women’s eNews $3,000
States/Barry Gaberman Lecture Fund New York, NY
New York, NY To provide core support to maintain and
To support a new fund created to inaugurate expand daily news coverage of issues of special
and sustain a new lecture to be given at the concern to women.
WINGS Forum in honor of Barry Gaberman’s
retirement from the Ford Foundation. Women’s Funding Network $15,000
San Francisco, CA
Lafayette Restoration Center $2,500 To support the planning of the January 2008
Lafayette, LA Women’s Funding Network retreat.
To provide general support to a multi-service
mental health organization that assists families Women’s Institute for Housing and $1,000
displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Economic Development
suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Boston, MA
A grant in memory of Nancy Nye, an early
Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance $500 and crucial advisor and participant in the
Jackson, MS Ms. Foundation for Women’s economic
To provide general support for rebuilding development work.
efforts that focus on immigrants’ rights and
access to services by recruiting immigrant Women’s Project $5,000
women into employment training programs. Little Rock, AR
To provide general support for an organization
Mississippi Workers’ Center for $500 dedicated to building an equitable and just
Human Rights Arkansas.
Greenville, MS
To provide general operating support to Gloria Steinem Fund
advocate for the dignity and safety of all
workers by using a human rights approach. The Feminist Press at CUNY $3,000
New York, NY
National Asian Pacific American $1,000 To support the book tour of Ellen Bravo,
Women’s Forum the national coordinator of the Multi-State
Brooklyn, NY Working Families Consortium and acclaimed
To support the project, Advancing APA activist, author and public speaker.
Women’s Rights: A Decade of Building
Power, Justice and Community. Girls Speak Out Foundation $5,000
San Francisco, CA
New Orleans Neighborhood $500 To develop and implement a program-
Development Collaborative certification plan to ensure the continuing
New Orleans, LA success of the Train the Trainers project.
To provide general support to expand the
production of quality, affordable housing and Hawaii Community Television $3,000
advocate for improved housing policies after Honolulu, HI
Hurricane Katrina. To provide support for “Ahead of the
Majority,” a one-hour documentary for
New World Foundation $2,000 national public television which explores the
New York, NY life and times of the late U.S. Representative
To support the Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Patsy Takemoto Mink.
Program, which honors and supports longtime
activists of color by giving them the resources Women of Color Resource Center $10,000
to take time out for reflection and renewal. Oakland, CA
To support an executive transition process and
New York Regional Association of $1,000 to build organizational capacity.
Grantmakers
New York, NY Women’s Media Center $1,000
To support the initiative, “The New NYRAG: New York, NY
Tools for Philanthropy in the 21st Century.” To provide general operating support to
engage with the media at all levels to ensure
Political Research Associates $1,000 that a diverse group of women is present in
Somerville, MA newsrooms, on air, in print and online, as both
To provide general operating support. sources and subjects.
Third Sector New England $2,000 Women’s World $8,440
Boston, MA New York, NY
To support the 2006 “Making Money, Making To provide travel support for five feminist
Change” retreat. writers—all members of the Women’s
WORLD network—to visit New Delhi, India
for the Women’s WORLD-India’s South
Asian regional conference, “Writing in a Time
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fiscal year 2008 grants
(July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008)
Economic Justice
Collaborative Fund for Women’s
Economic Development,
Fourth Round
Anew America Community
Corporation
Berkeley, CA
To support a renewal of activities under the
fourth round of the Collaborative Fund for
Women’s Economic Development (cfwed),
expanding work in the Women’s Business
Center, which will provide business incubation,
training and asset building.
The Edge Connection
Kennesaw, GA
To support a renewal of activities under
the fourth round of cfwed, such as the
Enterprise Center business incubator and the
Edge Fast Track Business Club.
Good Work Network
New Orleans, LA
To support a renewal of activities under the
fourth round of cfwed, developing ten
women-owned businesses with a goal of
creating 15 jobs.
Micro Business Development
Corporation
Denver, CO
To support a renewal of activities under
the fourth round of cfwed, creating a
customized business development program
for women entrepreneurs, integrating access to
markets, resources and capital.
The Wisconsin Women’s Business
Initiative Corporation
Milwaukee, WI
To support a renewal of activities under the
fourth round of cfwed, such as building
their capacity in outreach, lending, financial
awareness and business education classes.
Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency
Team
Albuquerque, NM
To support a renewal of activities under the
fourth round of cfwed, through MarketLink
Online, designed to assist low-income rural
entrepreneurs to increase sales by providing
marketing training.
Women’s Economic Ventures
Santa Barbara, CA
To support a renewal of activities under the
fourth round of cfwed, expanding staff
capacity to increase program scale, providing
more advanced training programs and
supporting women-owned businesses.
Women’s Initiative for Self
Employment
San Francisco, CA
To support a renewal of activities under
the fourth round of cfwed, increasing
organizational sustainability, strengthening
services for business expansion and expanding
core services.
Women’s Initiative for Self
Employment
San Francisco, CA
To support a learning retreat between the
Women’s Initiative for Self-Employment
and the Women’s Economic Venture so that
both groups may share experiences and build
capacity together.
*For additional Reproductive Rights, Health and Justice grants
see Building Democracy: Building Movements, page 18.
Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial
Network
Bethlehem, NH
To support a renewal of activities under
the fourth round of cfwed, developing
$30,000 the Wingspan Project, which will sustain
and grow women entrepreneurs through
networking and marketing support.
YWCA of Anchorage
Anchorage, AK
To support a renewal of activities under the
fourth round of cfwed, supporting the
Alaska Microenterprise Incubation Center,
a new initiative that will help women-owned
$40,000 startups.
Fairy Godmother Fund
alt.Consulting
Pine Buff, AR
To support work in monitoring the progress
of microenterprise partners, designing a
$15,000
new working capital loan program, training
Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative
staff on how to implement the loan program,
and planning a convening.
Brinkley Chamber of Commerce
Foundation
$40,000 Brinkley, AR
To support the facilitation of workshops, to
increase the capacity of the Delta Gateways
Business Resource Center, and to print
informational brochures.
Idea Village
New Orleans, LA
To support a portion of the workforce
$40,000 development and salary of a facilities manager
for the Business Innovation Center in the
Upper 9th Ward.
Mississippi Low-Income Childcare
Initiative
Biloxi, MS
To support the implementation of best
$40,000 practices on providing financial training and
technical assistance to child care centers.
Sacred Heart Southern Mission
Walls, MS
To support its efforts to ensure that low- and
moderate-income deposit holders participate
in financial education classes and business
development workshops, and use their savings
$30,000 for the growth and/or development of a small
business.
Seedco Financial Services, Inc.
New York, NY
To support a pilot project, the Women in
Business Initiative, which will provide much
needed financial and technical support to help
$40,000 struggling women-owned or -led businesses
in New Orleans achieve stability and expand
operations in a post-Katrina market.
Tunica County Community
Development Coalition
Tunica, MS
To support efforts in strengthening
microenterprises and responding to the current
$1,000 demands of the local business community by
holding one-on-one counseling and workshop
sessions for small business owners.
$30,000 Women’s Health
Reproductive Rights, Health
and Justice*
ACCESS/Women’s Health Rights $35,000
Coalition
Oakland, CA
To support the Raising Voices, Expanding
Access project and the hiring of a community
$40,000 mobilization coordinator to manage
movement-building efforts and to organize for
administrative and legislative policy change.
ACT for Women and Girls $25,000
Visalia, CA
To provide general support to build a regional
base of social justice advocates mobilizing
communities around reproductive justice
$20,000 issues, particularly against the California
parental-notification voter initiative,
Proposition 4.
California Latinas for Reproductive $40,000
Justice
Los Angeles, CA
To provide general support to advance
a Latina/o-specific reproductive justice
$15,000 framework and to advocate for effective
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
the California Comprehensive Sexual Health
and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Act.
Colorado Organization for Latina $40,000
Opportunity and Reproductive
Rights (color)
$15,000 Denver, CO
To provide general support for advocacy on
policies that lead to stronger, healthier Latino
communities, including efforts to improve
comprehensive sexual health education stan-
dards and increase availability of contraceptives
in Denver Public Schools.
$15,000
Dolores C. Huerta Foundation $25,000
Bakersfield, CA
To support the pilot project, Labor Education
and Training on Reproductive Rights, to raise
awareness about reproductive justice among
the labor movement, especially women, and to
$15,000 strengthen political ties between the labor and
women’s movements.
Faith Aloud $40,000
St Louis, MO
To provide general support to develop the
leadership of young adults and to offer
trainings to clergy and seminarians with the
goal of promoting healthy attitudes regarding
$9,500 reproductive health decisions.
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health $30,000
Chicago, IL
To provide general support for work including
the incorporation of a reproductive justice
framework into operations and activities; tar-
geted outreach to immigrant and marginalized
communities; and an integrated database to
$15,000 support base-building.
Massachusetts Coalition for $25,000
Occupational Safety and Health, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
To support the establishment of the Worker
Center Reproductive Health and Justice
Initiative to provide immigrant women and
girls with tools to organize for workplace and
policy change that will limit their exposure to
toxic chemicals.
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Migrant Health Promotion
Weslaco, TX
To support the project La Voz Latina, which
equips migrant women in the colonias of Rio
Grande Valley with leadership skills, advocacy
training, and reproductive health education to
change policy and improve women’s access to
reproductive health services.
NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
To provide general support for reaching out
to young Latina and immigrant women in the
greater Albuquerque area by creating cultur-
ally relevant reproductive and sexual health
messages.
National Advocates for Pregnant
Women
New York, NY
To provide general support for reversing
the advancement of “fetal rights,” and to
ultimately build a movement that supports
alliances among birthing rights, pro-choice
activists, drug policy organizations and criminal
justice reform advocates.
National Latina Institute for
Reproductive Health
New York, NY
To provide general support for community
mobilization and policy advocacy efforts as
well as work with local and state-based Ms.
Foundation grantees whose work focuses on
Latina constituencies.
Odyssey Youth Center
Spokane, WA
To provide general support for community
outreach, youth leadership development and
advocacy programming, specifically that which
targets LGBTQ youth.
SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW
Atlanta, GA
To provide general support to organize
progressive Georgians; to host a collaborative
briefing highlighting new research about young
women of color and reproductive justice;
and to advance advocacy goals during GA’s
legislative session.
West Virginia Free
Charleston, WV
To provide general support to address ongoing
issues such as costly emergency contraceptives
and public funding for abortions in the state;
to conduct a statewide assessment of teen
pregnancy.
West Virginia Free
Charleston, WV
To provide general support for the hiring
of a consultant to lead an annual Board of
Directors retreat and to address growth in and
organizational capacity and budget and define
roles for board members and staff.
Western States Center
Portland, OR
To provide support to create a “Reproduc-
tive Justice 101” curriculum designed to build
cross-constituency relationships; and to engage
LGBTQ organizations and groups of color
to take action on anti-gay ballot initiatives
through the project, Family, Community, and
Sexuality.
$50,000 Women’s Law Project
Philadelphia, PA
To provide general support for the reproduc-
tive justice work of Pennsylvanians for Choice,
housed at WLP, such as efforts to: pass a clinic
buffer-zone ordinance, advocate for emer-
gency contraception in hospitals, and partner
with prisoners’ rights groups on reproductive
health education.
$25,000
Women’s Voices for the Earth
Missoula, MT
To provide general support for building
national campaigns while strategically enhanc-
ing work to best address the intersection of
environmental health and women’s reproduc-
tive health.
$20,000
Young Women United
Albuquerque, NM
To provide general support to continue to
engage young women of color as leaders and
advocates, specifically in a campaign to influ-
ence the Albuquerque School System to imple-
ment medically accurate sexuality education as
required by state law.
$20,000 Sexuality Education and
Advocacy
Advocates for Youth
Washington, DC
To provide general support to enable Ad-
vocates for Youth to lend its assistance and
expertise to the Ms. Foundation’s Sexuality
Education Advocacy Initiative.
$50,000
Advocates for Youth
Washington, DC
To provide support for a state policy, collabo-
ration and strategic planning meeting held in
Washington, DC on October 17 - 19.
$35,000 AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland
Cleveland, OH
To support an advocacy campaign to reverse
the Ohio Board of Education abstinence-only
recommendations.
California Latinas for Reproductive
Justice
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000 To support the Latina Sexuality Education
Advocacy and Community Mobilization
Project, which builds the power of young
Latinas to advocate for the advancement and
the enforcement of comprehensive sexuality
education policies.
Education Fund of Family Planning
$5,000 Advocates of New York State
Albany, NY
To support efforts to expand comprehensive
sexuality education in New York schools
through the campaign, Get the Facts NY:
Mobilizing for Sex Education.
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
$20,000 Chicago, IL
To support efforts to increase the number of
youth who have access to age-appropriate,
medically accurate comprehensive sexuality
education in Illinois.
NARAL Pro-Choice Montana
Foundation
Helena, MT
To support efforts to increase access to sexual-
ity education through the Montana Partnership
for Sex Education program.
NARAL Pro-Choice Washington
Foundation
Seattle, WA
To support efforts to ensure that local school
districts comply with the Healthy Youth Act.
$30,000 New Mexicans for Responsible $50,000
Sexuality Education
Albuquerque, NM
To support efforts to provide advocacy, infor-
mation, and support for age-appropriate, medi-
cally accurate, and inclusive sexuality health
education in the state of New Mexico.
Planned Parenthood League of $50,000
Massachusetts
$40,000 Boston, MA
To support efforts to ensure that age-
appropriate, medically accurate sexuality
education will be taught in all public schools in
Massachusetts.
Planned Parenthood Mid and South $50,000
Michigan
$40,000 Ann Arbor, MI
To support the Mobilizing Michigan project
to further comprehensive sexuality education
by passing legislation, increasing the number
of schools teaching the curricula, and building
the leadership of teens and young adults to
conduct advocacy.
SIECUS $20,000
New York, NY
To provide general support for SIECUS’s ef-
forts with educators, advocates, policymakers,
$20,000 parents and caregivers, researchers, and the
media to help secure and protect sexual and
reproductive health education programs.
Texas Freedom Network Education $50,000
Fund
Austin, TX
$10,000 To support the Stand Up for Science Cam-
paign, which aims to pass statewide legislation
and curriculum standards with the Texas State
Board of Education, mandating comprehen-
sive sexuality education in schools.
$40,000 Women and AIDS
AIDS Services of Austin, Inc. $25,000
Austin, TX
To support the Women Rising Project, a
community-based program designed to build
$50,000 leadership opportunities for HIV-positive
women by engaging them in strategies to
broaden access to HIV-prevention services
for women.
ANIZ, Inc. $20,000
Atlanta, GA
To support ROSCHA: Reaching Out to
Sisters with HIV/AIDS, a gender-specific
program to provide self-advocacy skills to
$50,000 women living with HIV.
BABES Network-YWCA $23,000
Seattle, WA
To provide support to create an advocacy
coordinator staff position and increase the
impact of BABES’ services in building com-
munity and policy advocacy for women living
$30,000 with HIV.
Christie’s Place $25,000
San Diego, CA
To provide support for Transformations—
The Sisterhood Project, which uses leadership
training and skills-building to mobilize HIV-
$50,000 positive women activists to address short- and
long-term policy issues.
Christie’s Place $500
San Diego, CA
To support the workshop, “Advocacy:
Increasing Women’s Participation in Policy
$40,000 & Planning,” to train board members and
staff with the help of Carrie Broadus of Ms.
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HIV Law Project
New York, NY
To support the Center for Women & HIV
Advocacy in national efforts to develop the
leadership and capacity of women with HIV
and organizations focusing on women and
HIV; to disseminate information and analysis;
and to advocate for policy change.
Mujeres Unidas Contra el SIDA
San Antonio, TX
To support the new Saber es Poder (Knowledge
is Power) initiative, which will launch a state-
wide network in Texas to recruit and mentor
women of color who are living with HIV/
AIDS to conduct advocacy.
Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS
Research and Treatment (SMART)
New York, NY
To provide support to strengthen the voices
of HIV-positive women through programs
such as a new resource center, which aims to
improve literacy and self-advocacy by provid-
ing internet access and computer instruction.
Southwest Boulevard Family Health
Care
Kansas City, KS
To support the HIV University of Greater
Kansas, a program that supports and educates
women living with HIV/AIDS, as well as their
friends, family, and loved ones, to become ad-
vocates for themselves and their communities.
Women Alive Coalition
Los Angeles, CA
To provide general support for efforts to
mobilize women living with, and at risk of
acquiring HIV to advocate for change at local,
state, regional and national levels.
Women Organized to Respond to
Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD)
Oakland, CA
To provide general support for leadership devel-
opment and advocacy programs, including the
launch of the US Positive Women’s Network, a
national network of women living with HIV.
The Women’s Collective
Washington, DC
To provide general support to build the skills,
knowledge and power of a grassroots network
of women living with HIV/AIDS to conduct
policy advocacy.
Women’s Lighthouse Project
Aurora, CO
To provide general support to build the pow-
er of women living with HIV and advocate
for social and community services to lower
current disparities in women’s health care.
Building Democracy
AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland
Cleveland, OH
To support voter mobilization, education, and
day-of GOTV activities for working poor and
working-class women in northeast Ohio as
well as people associated with AIDS service
organizations and family planning, reproduc-
tive rights organizations across Ohio.
Rural Organizing Project
Scappoose, OR
To support a civic engagement strategy consist-
ing of book study circles of works by author
Naomi Wolf; a house party campaign; and a
core of door-to-door activists to inform voters.
Building Movements
Asian Communities for Reproductive
Justice
Oakland, CA
To provide general support for EMERJ, a
movement-building initiative of ACRJ which
works to foster strategic alliances and build
the power, leadership and capacity of grass-
roots organizations to advance reproductive
justice nationwide.
$10,000 Avery Institute for Social Change
Boston, MA
To support Raising Women’s Voices for the
Health Care We Need, an initiative co-led by
the Avery Institute, the National Women’s
Health Network and MergerWatch Project.
CAAAV Organizing Asian
Communities
$25,000 Bronx, NY
To provide general support to build grassroots
power across diverse Asian immigrant and
refugee communities in New York City to
address issues such as health care for survivors
of war, trauma and displacement, and housing
policy and gentrification.
$25,000 Childspace Cooperative
Development, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
To provide general support to build the
power of child care workers to advocate for
change; to convene child care workers at the
city, regional and state level to advocate for
benefits for low-income workers; and to lay the
foundation for the passage of universal health
$23,000 care in PA.
Choice USA
Washington, DC
To provide general support for collaborative
efforts to build a youth-centered pro-choice
agenda and mobilize communities for repro-
ductive freedom.
$25,000 Colorado Organization for Latina
Opportunity and Reproductive Rights
(color)
Denver, CO
To support a collaboration between COLOR
and the Latina Initiative to conduct the Latinas
Increasing Political Strength (LIPS) project,
$25,000 which aims to increase the representation of
young Latinas and their families in the electoral
and legislative process.
Direct Action for Rights and Equality
(DARE)
Providence, RI
To support DARE’s work in the project, Raise
$10,000 Your Voice, a sisterhood of three Rhode Island
organizations building a movement for social
justice with a base of low-income women of
color.
Domestic Workers United
New York, NY
$20,000 To provide general support to pass a Domestic
Workers Bill of Rights in New York State, to
increase public awareness of the abusive condi-
tions domestic workers face, and to build a
national movement of domestic workers.
Generations Ahead
Brooklyn, NY
To support a growing national network that
$23,000 expands the public debate and promotes
policies on human genetic and reproductive
technologies to protect the health and human
rights of diverse communities.
Legal Momentum
New York, NY
To support Legal Momentum’s role in the Na-
tional Network to End Violence Against Immi-
$15,000 grant Women, a collaboration with the Family
Violence Prevention Fund and ASISTA.
Montana Women Vote
Missoula, MT
To provide general support to Montana Wom-
en Vote and Montana Human Rights Network
to expand women voters’ civic engagement
programs and invest in low-income women’s
leadership development and policy advocacy
$50,000
across coalitions.
$50,000 Multi-State Working Families $50,000
Consortium
Missoula, MT
To provide general support for a group of
11 state coalitions working collaboratively to
expand access to paid sick days and family
leave by involving those most affected by an
$50,000 absence of family-friendly policies; to conduct
campaigns with a particular focus on the 2008
elections.
National Advocates for Pregnant $40,000
Women
New York, NY
To provide general support to bring new
reproductive justice constituencies to the table
and to raise awareness about the volume of
$60,000 cases, policies, and practices that demonstrate
the extent to which pregnant women are
denied their civil and human rights.
National Latina Institute for
Reproductive Health $50,000
New York, NY
To provide general support to ensure the fun-
damental human right to reproductive health
for Latinas, their families and their communi-
ties through public education, policy advocacy
$50,000 and community mobilization.
People’s Production House $4,500
New York, NY
To provide support to conduct a follow-up ra-
dio and media organizing training for Louisiana
youth in the Renaissance Village trailer park
$50,000 after delivering intensive radio documentary
training to these and other Katrina Women’s
Response Fund grantees in LA and MS.
Southeast Regional Economic Justice $50,000
Network
Durham, NC
To provide general support for a network
formed to address the impact of economic
globalization on various social justice issues,
including support for just immigration and a
$50,000 civic engagement campaign targeting African
American and immigrant youth, particularly
girls.
Southern Center for Human Rights $60,000
Atlanta, GA
To support the Alabama Women’s Resource
Network, a coalition of incarcerated women,
service providers, and advocates working
$40,000 to ensure that women have the services and
resources they need to lead safe, healthy lives,
and to shift Alabama away from a punitive,
incarceration-based response.
Women of Color Resource Center $40,000
Oakland, CA
To provide general support to promote the po-
$50,000 litical, economic, social and cultural well-being
of women and girls of color in the US.
Young Workers United $60,000
San Francisco, CA
To provide general support to enforce a suc-
cessful campaign to win paid sick days and to
expand organizing of restaurant workers focus-
$50,000 ing on wages, benefits, labor conditions and
discrimination based on gender and race.
Katrina Women’s Response Fund
ACLU of Mississippi $10,000
Jackson, MS
$75,000 To support the Access to Government
project, which focuses on ensuring community
involvement in public safety issues through the
creation of civilian police review boards and
neighborhood public safety committees.
Climbing PoeTree $15,000
Ridgewood, NY
To provide support for “Hurricane Season:
The Hidden Messages in Water,” a multi-
media, two-woman show which will tour to
over 50 cities nationwide beginning on the
third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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Coastal Women for Change
Biloxi, MS
To support work around housing policy and
legislation, gender violence and marginalized
communities affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Common Ground Relief
New Orleans, LA
To support continued work on housing, vol-
unteer recruitment for gutting and community
planning, and eventual transition to ownership
by the community.
Common Ground Relief
New Orleans, LA
To provide general support towards the full
restoration of the Lower Ninth Ward and for
a vocational training program for women,
intended to build women’s power to advocate
for themselves.
Critical Resistance
Oakland, CA
To provide support for organizing in New
Orleans for public education and movement
building and to address post-conviction
discrimination.
Critical Resistance
Oakland, CA
To support work in growing a New Orleans
chapter and continuing public education
workshops and programs about the prison
industrial complex.
Elsewhere Films
Brooklyn, NY
To support the launch of Trouble the Water, a
film featuring Kimberly River Roberts, a young
woman of color who survives the flooding of
New Orleans and records her experience in
a video diary during and in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina.
Families and Friends of Louisiana’s
Incarcerated Children
New Orleans, LA
To support FFLIC’s work on representing
youth in disciplinary hearings, developing
parent-advocates with Know Your Rights
trainings, and facilitating involvement with the
Louisiana Defense Indigent Assistance Board.
Families and Friends of Louisiana’s
Incarcerated Children
New Orleans, LA
To provide general support to build the power
of individuals, families and communities to
transform oppressive institutions and to fight
for justice for children, particularly those
involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice
system.
Gulf Coast Funders for Equity
New Orleans, LA
To provide support for the Gulf Coast
Funders for Equity Seed Grant and Technical
Assistance Fund to assist new and emerging
social change groups active in the Gulf Region.
Institute of Women and Ethnic
Studies
New Orleans, LA
To provide support for Healing Circles: Stories
of Survival/Rituals of Revival, which engage
women leaders who are “living and working”
the recovery from Hurricane Katrina in a
participatory process.
Mississippi Low-Income Childcare
Initiative
Biloxi, MS
To support work to reform the child care
subsidy system, to address the challenge of
financing for child care services and to enhance
the quality of services offered to low-income
families.
Moore Community House
Biloxi, MS
To support the Women in Construction
project, which trains low-income women for
careers in the construction trades in Biloxi, MS
and throughout the Gulf Coast.
$20,000 New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic
New Orleans, LA
To support work in providing health care ad-
vocacy and services to low-income, uninsured
and underinsured women of color.
$10,000 People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and
Oversight Coalition
New Orleans, LA
To provide support through travel grants to
help bring displaced survivors to New Orleans
for anniversary commemoration events.
$15,000 People’s Production House
New York, NY
To provide support to determine the organiza-
tional, media and communication needs of Ms.
Foundation grantees and establish how radio
can best serve their organizing and advocacy
work.
$15,000 Mississippi Immigrants’ Rights
Alliance
Jackson, MS
To provide support for the Immigrants Rights
Legal Advocacy Project in order to bolster
strategic communication around heightened
immigration raids and racial profiling, and to
$25,000 support local and national immigrants’ rights
organizations.
Mississippi Low-Income Childcare
Initiative
Biloxi, MS
To provide general support to rebuild, organize
$5,000 and advocate on the Gulf Coast for the child
care needs of low-income women; to build
a strong grassroots constituency so that all
children in Mississippi have access to quality
childhood education.
Mississippi Workers’ Center for
Human Rights
Greenville, MS
$25,000 To provide general support to build the power
and leadership of low-wage workers, especially
African American women. To identify Mis-
sissippi landlords who violate tenants’ human
rights to decent housing and to increase work-
ers’ compensation.
National Coalition on Black Civic
Participation
$25,000 Washington, DC
To support research on African American
women’s attitudes and beliefs around topics
such as racism and sexism, African-American
political power and influence, and the most
pressing policy issues that African American
women face.
North Gulfport Community Land
Trust
$10,000 Gulfport, MS
To provide support for work on historic pres-
ervation, environmental justice, housing and
community planning after Hurricane Katrina,
and to acquire 30 parcels of land to maintain
community identity and Trust membership.
$15,000 Restaurant Opportunities Center
United
New York, NY
To provide support for the development of a
leadership board comprised of African Ameri-
can and immigrant women restaurant workers
and to conduct participatory research on work-
ing conditions and gender discrimination in the
New Orleans restaurant industry.
$25,000
Safe Streets/Strong Communities
New Orleans, LA
To provide general support for movement
building through participation in the national
Right to the City Alliance; to support capacity
building, increased civic participation and an
expanded framework that joins issues such as
housing and urban displacement.
$15,000
$15,000 STEPS Coalition $20,000
Biloxi, MS
To support collaboration and grassroots leader-
ship development among organizations who
came together post-Katrina to advocate for a
just recovery; to facilitate a series of meetings
$1,000 to develop an integrated Coalition strategy.
STEPS Coalition $15,000
Biloxi, MS
To support the Coalition, formed as a response
to Hurricane Katrina, in becoming a long-term,
sustainable organization and building the
$30,000 power of low-income communities of color to
engage in the political process.
Wider Opportunities for Women $25,000
Washington, DC
To support work in providing technical
assistance to a series of local partners in AL,
LA, GA, MS and FL in order to establish
$15,000 pre-apprenticeship job training programs for
low-income women.
Wider Opportunities for Women $10,000
Washington, DC
To support the Gulf Coast Just Recovery
Project to build the power of local women
and community-based organizations through
leadership institutes and technical assistance,
and to develop women’s economic security
$15,000 and just recovery policy agendas.
Women’s Funding Network $359,000
San Francisco, CA
To support continued work in the launch of
a new women’s fund in New Orleans and to
provide capacity building tools and training for
women’s funds in the region.
Zion Traveler’s Cooperative $20,000
$15,000 Braithwaite, LA
To support the Zion Traveler’s Cooperative
major rebuilding work in the Franklin Parish of
New Orleans, such as development of a new
health clinic and continuing work on a technol-
ogy center and nutrition center.
Sophia Fund
American Civil Liberties Union $15,000
$10,000 Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
To support the Women’s Rights Project, which
aims to help survivors of domestic violence
leave unsafe relationships by ending housing
discrimination perpetrated by public housing
authorities.
Amnesty International USA $5,000
New York, NY
$25,000 To support the publication of the report, “No
Shelter from Violence,” which outlines US
obligations under international human rights
law to provide accessible shelter and housing
for survivors of domestic violence.
FairVote Minnesota $10,000
Minneapolis, MN
To fund a staff person’s salary to provide
$15,000 management support to the Saint Paul Better
Ballot Campaign, which aims to put instant
runoff voting on the Minnesota ballot in 2008
and thereby expand political access for women
and communities of color.
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues $10,000
New York, NY
To provide general support for core activities
such as educational workshops and teleconfer-
$15,000 ences, national convenings of LGBTQ public
leaders, the Common Vision partnership initia-
tive and the LGBTQ Racial Equity Campaign.
Indigenous Peoples Task Force $20,000
Minneapolis, MN
To support the Native Women’s Peer
Education Program, a growing Minnesota-
based statewide network of community
leaders-in-training who educate women on
sexual and reproductive health.
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Bellevue, WA
To provide general support to further build the
women’s movement through the deployment
of online and on-the-ground educational and
organizing strategies.
National Council for Research on
Women
New York, NY
To support “Hit the Ground Running,”
NCRW’s annual conference, by helping
emerging leaders, community-based activists,
and young women of color attend through
travel stipends and registration waivers.
National Council of Women’s
Organizations
Washington, DC
To support the 2008 Women’s Equality Sum-
mit and Congressional Action Day, attracting
500 women leaders, activists, and students
to establish a legislative agenda for the 110th
Congress, with lectures by Riane Eisler, Martha
Burk and Laura Flanders.
National Women’s Law Center
Washington, DC
To provide general support, in particular for
the Center’s Education and Employment
Program and to help educate policymakers
through a Federal Judiciary effort.
Proteus Fund
Amherst, MA
To provide support for the State Strategies
Fund Forum, an ongoing learning and strat-
egizing table for donors interested in state-level
infrastructure projects.
Women’s Funding Network
San Francisco, CA
To support the “Leadership for a Changing
World 24th Annual Conference,” bringing
together 400 women from 125 global woman’s
organizations for workshops, consulting and
talks with Nobel Prize Laureate, Wangari
Maathai.
Ending Violence
Amnesty International USA
New York, NY
To support the publication of the report, “No
Shelter from Violence,” which outlines US
obligations under international human rights
law to provide accessible shelter and housing
for survivors of domestic violence.
Beyondmedia Education
Chicago, IL
To support the Chain of Change, a political
education and organizing project that harnesses
the power of viral video and social networking
in the fight against gender-based violence.
Correctional Association of
New York
New York, NY
To support the Women in Prison Project,
designed to create a criminal justice system
that addresses women’s specific needs and that
treats all people, families and communities with
fairness, dignity and respect.
Darkness to Light
Charleston, SC
To support participation in a Funders’ Forum
on Child Sexual Abuse.
Family Violence Prevention Fund
San Francisco, CA
To support the creation of a National Institute
on Fatherhood and Domestic Violence,
which seeks to help fathers create healthier
relationships with their children and parenting
partners.
FIERCE
New York, NY
To provide general support for building the
leadership and power of LGBTQ youth of
color in New York City.
$10,000 GenderPAC $15,000 Stop It Now! $20,000
Washington, DC Northampton, MA
To provide general support to ensure that To support participation in a Funders’ Forum
classrooms and communities are safe for on Child Sexual Abuse.
children and youth, whether or not they meet
stereotypes for masculinity or femininity. Stop the Silence Stop Sexual Abuse, Inc $5,000
Glenn Dale, MD
$3,000 generationFIVE $20,000 To support, through co-sponsorship, the 5th
Oakland, CA annual Race to Stop the Silence: Stop Child
To support participation in a Funders’ Forum Sexual Abuse, in Washington, DC on April
on Child Sexual Abuse. 13, 2008.
generationFIVE $40,000 Urban Word NYC $10,000
Oakland, CA New York, NY
To support efforts to end the sexual abuse To support Women Reborn Through Music,
of children within five generations by Media & Culture workshops which encourage
$10,000 transforming the social conditions that young women to safely and creatively respond
perpetuate the abuse of children. to issues of violence through media analysis,
critical discussion and art.
The Girls & Boys Projects $5,000
New York, NY Women and Girls Collective Action $10,000
To support a series of four workshops entitled Network
BOY TALK, in which men who work Chicago, IL
with boys will be brought together to share To provide general support for consciousness-
their experiences around gender issues and raising, training, dialogue and action around
techniques and ideas for reaching boys. issues that matter to women and girls.
$10,000
Helping Our Teen Girls in Real Life $40,000
Situations (HOTGIRLS) Discretionary
Atlanta, GA President’s Discretionary Fund
To provide general support to improve the
health and lives of young Black women and Applied Research Center $5,000
Oakland, CA
girls by providing culturally relevant and youth-
$10,000 friendly information and programming. To support general operations.
Avery Institute for Social Change $5,000
Journalism Center on Children & $40,000
Families Boston, MA
To provide support for scholarships for
College Park, MD
To support a web-based resource center that women of diverse backgrounds to attend the
2008 Raising Women’s Voices for the Health
will help journalists accurately and insightfully
$10,000 report on child sexual abuse. Care We Need national conference, which
includes training workshops on topics such as
Massachusetts Citizens for Children $40,000 community organizing.
Boston, MA
To support the Enough Abuse Campaign to Casa de Esperanza $1,000
St. Paul, MN
prevent child sexual abuse.
To support the re-launch of the project, My
Girlfriend Did It, which aims to support
New Orleans Family Justice Center $10,000
women subjected to domestic abuse in lesbian
New Orleans, LA
To support the opening of the New Orleans relationships, as part of the organization’s 25th
Family Justice Center, which serves survivors Anniversary activities.
of domestic violence and holds perpetrators
$5,000 accountable. INSIGHT Center for Community $2,000
Economic Development
Peer Solutions, Inc. $10,000 Oakland, CA
Phoenix, AZ To support the convening for Californians
To support the Stand & Serve Central Corridor for Family Economic Self-Sufficiency,
Initiative, designed to shift language, beliefs and geared towards expanding grassroots and
behaviors in the areas of gender and sexuality, political movement, building capacity of
based on needs and strategies developed at the local organizations, and promoting the Self-
$20,000 community level. Sufficiency Standard.
Prevention Institute $40,000 Ms. Foundation for Education and $300,000
Oakland, CA Communication
To provide general support to improve New York, NY
community health and well-being through To support Gloria Steinem in her ongoing
effective primary prevention of child sexual effort to collect, summarize and put into
$20,000 abuse. transferable forms, the great volume of
material generated in her life and work as an
RightRides for Women’s Safety, Inc. $10,000 activist for the advancement of women’s rights
Brooklyn, NY (also known as the Harvest Project).
To provide general support for engaging and
empowering vulnerable communities to end Smith College $5,000
sexual assault through grassroots organizing. Northampton, MA
To support the Sophia Smith Collection in
Rogers Park Young Women’s Action $10,000 making its internationally recognized repository
$20,000 Team of photographs, manuscripts and other
Chicago, IL primary resources increasingly accessible to
To provide general support to mobilize young those researching the history of the women’s
women to take action on issues of sexual rights movement.
violence within their community.
$10,000 Take Our Daughters & Sons To Work $25,000
Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership $15,000 Foundation
Against Domestic Violence Elizabeth City, NC
Boston, MA To provide support for the transition of the
To support the Manna in the Wilderness 15-year Ms. Foundation program, Take Our
Project, which conducts outreach, education Daughters & Sons to Work, to the newly
and organizing in order to strengthen violence created Take Our Daughters and Sons to
prevention, early intervention, accountability Work Foundation.
$30,000 and social change.
Ms. Foundation for Women Annual Report 2007-2008 20
Tides Center National Office $2,000 Women’s Media Center $5,000
San Francisco, CA New York, NY
To provide support to facilitate the Making To provide support for WMC’s general
Money Make Change retreat, which brings operating expenses, an organization whose
young people together to build community mission is to assure women’s visibility,
development strategies for social change representation and equal opportunity for
through philanthropy. employment in the media.
Women’s eNews $5,000 WRRAP Women’s Reproductive $3,000
New York, NY Assistance Project
To provide core support to maintain and Los Angeles, CA
expand daily national and international news To support WRAAP in providing grants for
coverage of issues of special concern to low-income women and teens in need of
women. emergency contraception or safe legal abortion
options.
Women’s Funding Network $5,000
San Francisco, CA Marie C. Wilson Leadership
To support planning for the January 2008 Fund
WFN retreat.
Bella Abzug Leadership Institute $5,000
Gloria Steinem Fund New York, NY
To help fund the National Women’s and Girl’s
Bella Abzug Leadership Institute $3,000 Conference in New York City and to support
New York, NY scholarships and the cost of the conference.
To provide funding for the National Women’s
and Girls Conference, which aims to educate Comunidad Mujer $7,000
attendees from 37 national women’s groups Santiago,
about prior successes and future goals in sexual To support efforts to provide training in
health policy. campaigning, media relations, public speaking
and fundraising to ultimately increase
Choice USA $5,000 the country’s number of women political
Washington, DC candidates in Chile.
To support the development of a leadership
transition paper, which aims to engage FairVote $1,000
organizational partners, allied organizations, Takoma Park, MD
and individuals looking to build their own To support efforts to provide fair
social justice organizations. representation of women and people of color
under the Voting Rights Act; higher and more
Girls Speak Out Foundation $3,000 equitable voter turnout; stronger coalition-
San Francisco, CA building; and reduced campaign finance
To support efforts to raise awareness around demands.
the breast ironing phenomenon by creating an
online learning module to bring help to girls Full Frame Documentary Film $5,000
in Cameroon. Festival
Durham, NC
Girls Speak Out Foundation $2,500 To support the Women in Leadership Film
San Francisco, CA Award, honoring the film that best portrays
To provide support to prepare trainers in women in leadership. The 2008 award will go
Nairobi and Dar es Saleem through forums to the film, “Taking Root,” about Nobel Peace
and workshops, to organize collaborations Prize winner Wangari Maathai.
between Girls Speak Out and other global
grassroots organizations, and to aid girls International Women’s Media $3,000
affected by post-election violence in 2008. Foundation
Washington, DC
Indigenous Women’s Resource $8,000 To provide general support for work to
Centre strengthen the role of women in the news
Dhanketi, Meghalaya media worldwide as a means to further
To support Ms. Mukhim in conducting gender freedom of press.
workshops to women’s groups in the North
Eastern region of India and, subsequently, in Washtenaw Community College $1,000
making suitable documentation of this training Foundation
for future efforts. Also, to provide general Ann Arbor, MI
operations support. A grant in honor of Pam Horiszny to support
the WCC Foundation’s fundraising efforts for
Nevada Coalition Against Sex $10,000 scholarships and other resources for women.
Trafficking
San Francisco, CA Women Peace and Security Network $5,000
To support efforts to educate people about the Africa
harm of prostitution as well as to develop and Ghana
promote policy and alternatives to current laws To support the group’s institution-building,
and practices within the State of Nevada. general operations and capacity-building, and
to provide travel grants for the 52nd Session of
Twenty-First Century Foundation $5,000 the United Nations Commission on the Status
New York, NY of Women in New York.
To support the Black Male Conference, aimed
at uniting leaders, intellectuals, educators,
activists, health professionals and other service
providers for the improvement of the state of
Black men and boys.
Women’s eNews $2,000
New York, NY
In support of Louise Bernikow’s efforts to
bring her program about women’s activist
history to underserved communities in New
York City in 2008.
Women’s eNews $2,500
New York, NY
To support the staging of the Annual
Women’s eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st
Century Gala, the major marketing and
fundraising event for eNews in 2008.

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the Ms. Foundation brings together
grassroots and national groups to
learn from and network with one
another and to build powerful
social movements.

Amelia Vader (left) and Tonya Rasberry (right) of BABES Network

– YWCA with Leslie Rodgers (center) of Women’s Lighthouse
Project at a Ms. Foundation grantee gathering, Raleigh, NC.
December 2008
Giving to the Ms. Foundation for Women

The Ms. Foundation for Women supports thousands of women leaders and their organizations
in diverse urban and rural areas across the United States. We are uniquely positioned to link
local, regional and national work and leaders for the greatest impact.

Please help us to bring the experience and solutions of women and girls to create policy and
culture change. The Ms. Foundation offers many opportunities to get involved in our work:

• Make an unrestricted gift and increase the Ms.
Foundation’s ability to respond quickly to problems
and opportunities with flexible, proactive
grantmaking.
• Attend our annual event, The Gloria Awards: A
National Salute to Women of Vision.
• Join Gloria Steinem and others by creating a
bequest or trust naming the Ms. Foundation as a
beneficiary of your estate and become a member
of our Endless Wave Legacy Group.
• Join our Democracy Funding Circle.
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Partners in Philanthropy
The Ms. Foundation for Women is able to advance its efforts thanks to our donor partners. We would like to extend our heartfelt
gratitude to the following individuals, foundations and corporations for their generous commitment to our vision of a just and
safe world for women and girls.
The listing below represents
contributions made between
July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2008.
$1 Million and above
The Ford Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
$500,000 - $999,999
Anonymous Partner
Marguerite Casey Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation
$100,000 - $499,999
Anonymous Partners (4)
The Loreen Arbus Foundation
The Estate of Suzanne Barnett
The Brico Fund
Citi Foundation
Claire’s Stores, Inc.
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Anne Delaney
Quinn Delaney and
Wayne Jordan
Abigail Disney
Dobkin Family Foundation
Christine J. Drennan 2004 Trust
The Educational Foundation of
America
General Service Foundation
Richard and Rhoda Goldman
Fund
Katherine Grover and
Michael J. Campbell
Leo S. Guthman Fund
The Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation
Lilo and Gerard Leeds
Lucia Woods Lindley
The Linked Foundation
Sidne Long
M.A.C. AIDS Fund
McKay Foundation
Alida R. Messinger
New York Life Insurance
Company
David and Lucile Packard
Foundation
Janet W. Prindle
Public Welfare Foundation
The Estate of
Constance M. Rogier
Deborah R. Salkind
Marla Schaefer
Bonnie Schaefer
Starry Night Fund of the Tides
Foundation
Levi Strauss Foundation
The Three Bridge Fund of the
Philanthropic Collaborative
Carol H. Tolan Fund of the New
York Community Trust
The Tomorrow Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation
$50,000 - $99,999
Shaler Adams Foundation
Bonus Fund
The Falcon Fund
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Elton John AIDS Foundation
Lifetime Entertainment Services
Amy C. Liss
The John Merck Fund
Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss
Edward S. Moore Family
Foundation
NoVo Foundation
Ortho-Women’s Health &
Urology (a division of Ortho-
McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.)
Catherine Raphael
Elizabeth Sawi
The Scherman Foundation
Patricia J.S. Simpson Hearst Magazines
Working Assets Kathryn S. Hirsch (Deceased)
Valerie Jacobs
$25,000 - $49,999 Jacobs Family Foundation
American Express Company JetBlue Airways
Anonymous Partner Kristina Kiehl and
CIT Group, Inc. Robert Friedman
Gill Foundation The Klarman Family Foundation
Goldman, Sachs & Co. Suzanne La Fetra
HLH Associates Yoko Ono Lennon
Margaret and Bill Lynch
Swanee Hunt
Macy’s East
Marion Kaplan
Macy’s Inc.
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Foundation, Inc. Susan and Phillip Marineau
KPMG LLP The McGraw-Hill Companies
McKay Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co.
McKecuen Consulting Inc. MetLife
Northern Trust, NA Leo Model Foundation
Erin Rossitto Morgan Lewis
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Neuberger Berman, Inc.
Jenny Warburg New Hampshire Charitable
Foundation
$10,000 - $24,999 New York Community Trust
American Express Foundation Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
Kayrita M. Anderson Open Society Institute
Anonymous Partners (3) Patterson Belknap Webb &
Aquiline Holdings LLC Tyler LLP
Irene and Jack Banning Susan Penick
Ashley Blanchard Quixote Foundation
Elizabeth Bremner and RBC Wealth Management
Karen Crow Emily A. Rosenberg
Lucy M. Chan Elizabeth A. Sackler
Elizabeth Colton Mary Lou and George Shott
Combined Federal Campaign Kathleen Stephansen and
Con Edison Company of Andrew D. Racine
New York Still In Action Fund of the Jewish
Communal Fund
The Dickler Family Foundation
Barkley J. Stuart and
Jeannie Diefenderfer
Ann B. Glazer
Diane V. Feeney
Sara Stuart
Fieldstone Alliance
Telcordia Technologies
Global Fund for Women
Time Warner Inc.
Archie Gottesman and
Gary DeBode Ann and Andrew Tisch
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Underdog Fund of the Tides Carol Pencke Astrid Delafield The Ethel & W. George Kennedy
Foundation Post Ranch Inn at Big Sur Jill and Robert Delaney Family Foundation, Inc.
Verizon Foundation Righteous Babe Records Quinn and Robert Delaney Kathleen Kennedy-Olsen
Cheryl Wilfong Alyce M. Russo and Steve Schall Mary J. Detwiler Gladys Kessler
Constance Hess Williams Valerie Salembier Marta Drury Denise Kleis
WolfBlock LLP The San Francisco Foundation Ingrid and Stephen Dyott Lisa Faith Knight
Joanne Woodward Dorothy and Carl Schneider Ingrid Eberly Betsy Koffman
WTAS LLC Gloria Steinem Jane Eckert Ann Kolker
Linda B. Strumpf El Conquistador Resort & Casino Elizabeth S. Kruidenier
$5,000 - $9,999 Sundance Channel Titia and William Ellis Helen P. Ladd
Patricia S. Adler Dorothy Q. Thomas Lauren Embrey Lorene S. Lamb
Alan and Arlene Alda Marlo Thomas and Enterprise Community Partners Deborah J. Landau
The Isabel Allende Foundation Phil Donahue Fayne Erickson Deborah and Rocco Landesman
Anonymous Partner Carolyn F. Webber Estee Lauder Inc. Marta Jo Lawrence
Avon Products, Inc. Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Lucinda B. Ewing Geraldine B. Laybourne
Freya and Richard Block Sue Fischlowitz Leader & Berkon LLP
Bradford Portraits $1,000 - $4,999 Forest City Ratner Companies Barbara F. Lee
Denise Scott Brown and AARP Foundation Four Seasons Resorts Bali Suzanne Lerner
Robert Venturi ACLU Foundation, Inc. Suzanne Frye, M.D. Andrea Levere and
Comedy Central ACT 1 Funding Exchange Michael Mazerov
Camille O. and William H. Cosby Adesso Gail Furman Leila J. Linen
Katheen Dore Estelle C. Adler Iwao Fusillo Mandarin Oriental, New York
Terry Satinover Fagen Melissa Aiello Jill and James Gibson Kathleen Marshall
Fannie Mae Office of Linda L. Alter Atherlie K. Gidding Nancy and Kevin McKay
Community and Charitable Anonymous Partners (10) Vicky McLean
The Estate of Elthea A. Gill
Giving Nina McLemore
Lorraine Antoniello Lynda M. Goldstein
Allison Fine Barbara J. Meislin
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Ilene Gordon
Robert F. Finnigan Justice Joan Meixner
Martha C. Goss
Judy Francis-Zankel Amy Batchelor and Sara E. Meléndez
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Eleanor Friedman and Bradley A. Feld Bruce Miller
Jonathan Cohen Alice Greenhouse
Sharon E. Baum Gail S. Milliken
Helen J. Gemmill Barbara Grodd
Anson M. Beard Nancy Milliken
William Goldman Catherine and John Grover
Judy Belk and Roger Peeks Wenda Weekes Moore
Sara K. Gould and Rick Surpin Tom Hall
Nancy Bernstein Myerberg Shain and Associates
Leigh Hallingby Jean V. Hardisty
Alison Sirkus Brody JoanAnn Natola
Susan J. Hessel William M. Hawkins
Lucinda and Robert Bunnen Barry and Judith Nelson
Karen and Steve Hillenburg Margaret L. Hempel
Patricia T. Carbine Gloria S. Neuwirth
Caroline P. Hirsch Susannah Grant Henrikson
Cars4Charities Jessica A. Neuwirth
John S. Johnson Mary Beth Henson
Denise E. Cavanaugh New York Life Foundation
Katz Media Group Esther B. Hewlett
Jill and John Chalsty Margaret H. Newell
Susan and Charles Knight C. Hunziker
ChevronTexaco Beatrice Nold
Rochelle Korman Amy Jamrog
Thomas and Sue Pick Family Northern Trust Company
Suzanne and Robert Levine Carol E. Jaspin
Fund of the Chicago Kay and Peter Nosler
The Little Family Foundation Community Foundation Amy Jedlicka
Joan and William Johnson Jane Ordway and
The Cynthia McLachlan Trust Mayree C. Clark Dexter Guerrieri
Friedrike Merck Susan Nora Clark Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Oxygen Media LLC
Katharine B. Mountcastle Clodagh Design Sarah A. Peter
Sandra S. Joys
MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. Daffy’s Inc. Marnie S. Pillsbury
Elaine Kant
MTV Networks Nancy L. Davenport PINK magazine
Ann F. Kaplan
Northrop Grumman Corporation Sheila K. Davidson Letty Cottin Pogrebin and
Carole and Mark Kaufmann
Paul, Weiss Tonja W. Davidson Bert Pogrebin

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Brette E. Popper Mary Turney Eva and David Bradford Joanne Edgar
Amy K. Posner and Lesa Ukman Andrea and Charles Bronfman [Redacted August 2010]
Deborah Novak Unleash, Inc. Philanthropies Debra P. Ekman
Lynn Povich and Jennifer S. Vanica Joanne E. Bruggemann Eileen and Richard Ekstract
Stephen Shepard Diane von Furstenberg Elizabeth E. Bruton Nancy L. Elsberry
Harold K. Raisler Foundation Wachovia Foundation Leonard and Sally Burda Sheldon Elsen
Amelie L. Ratliff Kathryn Weill Jane and Gilbert Burns Jean Entine
Nancy Raymond Wells Fargo Community Annabel Caner Nancy J. Feldman
Real Girls Media Support Campaign Mary Ellen S. Capek and Valerie Fennell
Denise J. Rich Westglow Resort and Spa Susan A. Hallgarth Nancy S. Ferguson
Susan Wood Richardson Diane J. Wexler Janet M. Carter Myra M. Ferree
Yolonda C. Richardson White Birch Foundation Helen Bill Casey Eileen Fisher, Inc.
Dara P. Richardson-Heron Carolyn Whittle Center for Anti-Violence Tracy Flanagan
Roberta Riley Margo and Irwin Winkler Education, Inc.
Jane B. Foster
Teresa L. Roberts The Winky Foundation Connie Chen
Rita J. Freedman
Elizabeth and Felix Rohatyn Oliver and Helen Wolcott Carol T. Christ
Barbara Friedberg
Gabby Rojchin The Women’s Foundation of Ellen B. Clark
Dorothy J. Fulton
Hassler Roma California Larry Colby
Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble
Nancy and Miles Rubin The Women’s Fund of Western Bernice Colman
Caryn M. Ganz
Judith A. Ruszkowski and Massachusetts Janet M. Conn
Gap Inc. Giving Campaign
Ken Regal Work Life Matters Magazine Sandra F. Coran
Ofelia Garcia
S.USA Life Insurance Thomas C. Cosgrove
Reide L. Garnett
Company, Inc. $250 - $999 Cecile and Martin Covert
GartnerGroup Inc.
Mary Beth Salerno Barbara Adler Criterion Collection/Janus Films
Sarah B. Glickenhaus
Samson Capital Advisors Effie K. Ambler Alan Croll
Sharna Goldseker
Sheri Sandler American Express Foundation Nina D’Ambra and
Lynn Gordon
Rosita Sarnoff Matching Gift Program Martin Goldberg
Carey Graeber
Carol Sauvion Anonymous Partners (11) Victoria J. Danzig
Connie I. Graham
Lisa M. Schiller Sona Aronian Christine Weiss Daugherty
Zadelle Krasow Greenblatt
Dorothy Schneider Nicholas Arons Linda Davey
Janet S. Hadley
Scripps Networks Kimberly A. Baer Deborah C. Davis
Lois C. Harrison
Amy Sewell, What’s Your Point, Sandra Bailey Virginia Day
Honey? Jane B. Hart
Jerry Bailey Miranda De Kay
Herbert Siegel Judith A. Hartmann
Virginia H. Baker Katharine B. Dernocoeur
Silver Mountain Foundation for Christie and John Hastings
Janice L. Bandrofchak Maureen Dewan
the Arts Sue A. Hruby
Lisa Baskin DHR International
Janet Singer Hudson-Webber Foundation
Judith Bayard and Phyllis Dicker and
Ann Singer Stuart Warmink Margaret Traub Inara
Skillbuilders Fund Alex Beard Tracy A. Dobson Mary and Douglas Ireland
Helen and Thomas Spiro Laurie F. Beard Barbara J. Dobson Jewish Funds for Justice
Diane Steingart Jeanne Q. Benoliel Mary H. Dodge Judy M. Judd
Sy Sternberg Robin Bierstedt Dianne Doherty Mary Lou Kennedy
Suzanne Sunshine Jen Bilik Carolyn Dolan Faye L. Keogh
Marcy Syms Blackstone Medical, Inc. Joanne E. Dorsher Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant
TD Bank Group, LLC
Pamela Bloodworth Lois and James Dowling
Judith R. Thoyer, Esq. Patricia M. King
Judy Bloom Kathy H. Drazen
Steven Tishman Carolyn T. Kirk
Barbara M. Blount Dina Doblun
Barrett A. Toan Ellen Klyce
Alice M. Bodford Suzanne F. Dunbar
Evelyn J. Trevethan Susan Korn
Cecilia Boone E&R Event Design Inc.
The Tsunami Foundation Jessica Kotary
Elizabeth T. Boris Martha Easter-Wells
Kathleen Turner Judith A. Kraines
John Brademas Elisabeth K. Ecke

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Jennifer L. Kraus The New York Women’s Roo Rogers and Bernie Huang Jill Storey
Antoinette LaBelle Foundation Patsy Rogers Natasha P. Stowe
Katherine J. Laffey Elise Newman and Tachiea Roland Lois M. Sturm
Louise Lamphere Noah Morgan Phyllis and William Rosser The Marcy Syms Fund of the
Sue Lampson Jean and Paul Nilson Patricia Marie Russo and Jewish Communal Fund
Kathie G. Larsen Kathleen R. Noe John Eino Karr Jerry Takis
Theresa M. Larson Jessye Norman Patricia A. Samuel Anne-Renee Testa
Kirsten Lawton Mary A. Oberman Joanne Sandler Linda Kaplan Thaler
Francine LeFrak Emily G. Pardee Brigitte Savage Kit Thomas
Mary P. Leonard Ronda Parish Martha S. Scheeren Cynthia A. Thompson
Ruth J. Levine Patricia H. Passer Eleanor Sellstrom John Tillotson
Leslie Levy and Caryatis Cardea Edgar Peara Carol J. Sherman Twenty-First Century
Beth Lowy Whitney Pennell Betsy D. Sherman Foundation
Adrienne Lurie Saralyn Peritz Sabrina Silverberg-Sarig Union Square Hospitality
Elizabeth and Richard Lyman Pierce Mattie Public Relations Hildy J. Simmons Cheryl Walls
Andrea S. Markezin-Press Susan M. Pierce Susan Slater Joan M. Warburg
Deborah Markoff Sharon Pikus Salwa J. Smith Elizabeth Wehrle
Clarissa G. Marshall Helen Sharron Pollard Barbara E. Smith Lola West
Susan J. Martin Ai-Jen Poo Emeline Sobieski Wheaton College
V. J. Mastrobuono Rita Possehl and Randi Solomon Patricia W. White
Teryl Springstead Susan Lewis Solomont and Joanne Widzer
Morgan J. McBride
Raising Change, LLC Alan D. Solomont Helen J. Winkler
Emily B. McCoy
Bonnie Raitt Cynthia A. Sommer Bebe Winkler
Alice J. McEwen
Karen Ranucci Spa Finder Terry and Carol Winograd
Don McPherson
Kathleen A. Ream Carolyn Linares Spears and Rhonda D. Wright
Karen Meshkov
Kathryn Reed William Worthington Elise A. Yablonski
Anne Messer
Sarah Beinecke Richardson and Lynn Sperandeo Judith P. Yeakel
Donald Meyers
Craig Richardson Marcia Cohn Spiegel
Beth A. Moore
The Ritz-Carlton, New York Mary Alice Steinhardt
Yvonne Moretti
Francine Rivkin and Susan L. Steinhauser and
Morgenthal Frederics Eyewear Amy MacDonald Daniel Greenberg
Dr. L. Leotus Morrison Perrie Rizzo George Stephanopoulos
National Latina Institute for RMS Fashions, Inc. Catharine R. Stimpson
Reproductive Health

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Women Moving Millions

We are grateful to our generous friends and donors who joined the Women Moving Millions
campaign in support of the Ms. Foundation for Women. Launched in partnership with the
Women’s Funding Network and philanthropists Helen LaKelly Hunt and Swanee Hunt, Women
Moving Millions is making history in philanthropy by women and for women by raising gifts of
a million dollars and above. The campaign seeks to invest resources in a social justice agenda
and provide substantial financial resources for women-led programs benefiting communities
all over the globe.
The following women supported their sisters through their philanthropy by making cash and planned gifts
to the Ms. Foundation for Women between November 2007 and April 2009 as part of this groundbreaking
campaign:

Jennifer Buffett Tracy Gary

Jane Comer Lynne P. Rosenthal

Anne Delaney E. Bonnie Schaefer

Barbara Dobkin Jacki Zehner

These generous women join our growing list of donors whose gifts of a million dollars and above established
the Endowment of the Ms. Foundation for Women in 2003, and whose vision and values are enabling the Ms.
Foundation to build women’s collective power to advance social change.

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Creating connections for powerful,
inclusive change is at the heart of the
Ms. Foundation for Women’s approach.

Lucy Félix of Migrant Health Promotion

celebrates after a community training on
reproductive health, Rio Grande Valley, TX.
May 2008
Statement of Financial Position
As of June 30, 2008 As of June 30, 2007
Temporarily Permanently Temporarily Permanently
Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total All Funds Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total All Funds
ASSETS
Current Assets
Cash and cash $3,005,554 $5,349,306 $8,354,860 $2,754,290 $4,746,044 $7,500,334
equivalents
Pledges, grants and 243,887 1,979,196 95,333 2,318,416 189,676 1,877,005 263,701 2,330,382
contributions receivable
Accrued interest 155,364 13,491 168,855 132,406 12,909 145,315
receivable
Inventories, prepaid 151,773 151,773 37,653 37,653
expenses and other
receivables
Deferred lease expenses 44,025 44,025
Short-term investments 100,863 2,040,588 2,141,451 320,877 3,589,495 3,910,372
Total Current Assets 3,701,466 9,382,581 95,333 13,179,380 3,434,902 10,225,453 263,701 13,924,056

Non Current Assets

Pledges, grants and 56,404 1,614,272 434,654 2,105,330 319,848 319,848
contributions receivable
Furniture, equipment 49,017 49,017 87,432 87,432
and leasehold
improvements, at
cost, less accumulated
depreciation and
amortization
Art work 77,000 77,000 77,000 77,000
Rent security deposits 382,533 382,533 54,321 54,321
Long-term investments 1,529,504 222,094 23,743,689 25,495,287 3,728,187 424,600 23,883,789 28,036,576
Total Assets $5,795,924 $11,218,947 $24,273,676 $41,288,547 $7,381,842 $10,650,053 $24,467,338 $42,499,233
LIABILITIES AND NET
ASSETS
Current Liabilities
Accounts and accrued $317,337 $53,713 $371,050 $263,781 $48,328 $312,109
expenses payable
Grants payable 1,498,620 1,498,620 322,000 2,180,620 2,502,620
Deferred Revenue 86,404 86,404 - -
Total Liabilities 403,741 1,552,333 1,956,074 585,781 2,228,948 - 2,814,729

Net Assets
Net Assets 5,392,183 9,666,614 24,273,676 39,332,473 6,796,061 8,421,105 24,467,338 39,684,504
Total Liabilities and $5,795,924 $11,218,947 $24,273,676 $41,288,547 $7,381,842 $10,650,053 $24,467,338 $42,499,233
Net Assets

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Statement of Activities
2008 2007
Temporarily Permanently Temporarily Permanently
Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total All Funds Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total All Funds
Revenues, Gains, and
Support
Grants and $2,082,508 $7,059,972 $45,171 $9,187,651 $1,766,550 $6,520,661 $59,193 $8,346,404
contributions
Special events 1,157,335 1,157,335 1,080,981 1,080,981
Investment income 707,066 258,184 965,250 563,103 231,816 794,919
Net realized gains on 2,003,767 17,492 2,021,259 1,282,591 12,388 1,294,979
investment transactions
Product and publication 22,396 22,396
sales
In-kind contributions 1,596 1,596 7,980 7,980
Other income 2,621 2,621 4,939 4,939
Total Revenues, Gains 5,954,893 7,335,648 45,171 13,335,712 4,728,540 6,764,865 59,193 11,552,598
and Other Support
Net Assets released 6,004,257 (6,004,257) 4,981,578 (4,981,578)
from restrictions
Total Revenues, Gains 11,959,150 1,331,391 45,171 13,335,712 9,710,118 1,783,287 59,193 11,552,598
and Other Support
Expenses
Program Services
Economic Security 507,654 507,654 634,298 634,298
Health and Safety 2,559,540 2,559,540 2,111,739 2,111,739
Girls, Young Women & - - 144,092 144,092
Leadership
Public Education 676,119 676,119 790,047 790,047
Katrina Women’s 1,018,417 1,018,417 944,946 944,946
Response Fund
Cross-Cutting Program 1,717,479 1,717,479 959,263 959,263
Work
Donor Advised Grant 165,906 165,906 70,560 70,560
making
Total Program 6,645,115 6,645,115 5,654,945 5,654,945
Services
Supporting Services
Administrative and 1,633,651 1,633,651 1,091,409 1,091,409
General
Fund Raising 1,375,732 1,375,732 1,381,038 1,381,038
Total Supporting 3,009,383 3,009,383 2,472,447 2,472,447
Services
Total Expenses 9,654,498 9,654,498 8,127,392 8,127,392
Change in Net Assets 2,304,652 1,331,391 45,171 3,681,214 1,582,726 1,783,287 59,193 3,425,206
before Net unrealized
gains on investments
Net unrealized gains on (3,708,530) (85,882) (238,833) (4,033,245) 2,560,055 79,953 174,008 2,814,016
investments
Change in Net Assets (1,403,878) 1,245,509 (193,662) (352,031) 4,142,781 1,863,240 233,201 6,239,222
Net Assets as of June 6,796,061 8,421,105 24,467,338 39,684,504 2,653,280 6,557,865 24,234,137 33,445,282
30, 2007 (2006 for Prior
Year)
Net Assets as of June $5,392,183 $9,666,614 $24,273,676 $39,332,473 $6,796,061 $8,421,105 $24,467,338 $39,684,504
30, 2008 (2007 for Prior
Year)

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The more we lift women’s voices, the more
collective power we will have to realize
our vision of a just and safe world.

Children gather at a Dolores Huerta Foundation

community event, Central Valley, CA.
March 2008
board of directors foundation staff

Katie Grover, CSW, Chair President’s Office Finance

Sara K. Gould Michelle Holder
Phoebe Eng, Vice Chair
President & CEO Director of Finance
Executive Director, Creative Counsel
Co-Founder, The Opportunity Agenda
Susan Wefald Marlene Martinez
Executive Vice President & COO Senior Staff Accountant
Elizabeth Bremner, Treasurer
Former President
Beatrice Abreu
Foundation Incubator Operations
Executive Assistant to President
& CEO Andrea Briscoe
Sara E. Meléndez, Secretary
Director of Human Resources and
A. Caroline Hotaling Operations
Emilienne de Leon Aulina
Manager of Strategy and Planning
Executive Director
Wendell Snipes
SEMILLAS
Operations Assistant
Communications
Ashley Blanchard
Ellen Braune Carol Yesalonis
Senior Consultant
Vice President of Communications Office Coordinator
TCC Group
Rob Johnston Stacy Young
Anne Delaney
Manager of Online Communications Human Resources and Operations
Founder
and Marketing Assistant
Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation
Lulu Roller
Jeannie Diefenderfer Program
Communications Associate
Senior VP, Global Engineering and
Patricia Eng
Planning
Irene Schneeweis Vice President of Program
Verizon Business
Senior Communications Manager
Sangeeta Budhiraja
Don McPherson
Program Officer
President Development
Don McPherson, Enterprises LLC
Mary Oberman Desiree Flores
Vice President of Development Program Officer
Wenda Weekes Moore
Trustee
Sunny Daly Namalie Jayasinghe
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Corporate and Foundation Relations Program Associate
Manager
Cathy Raphael
Kira Laffe
Vice-Chair, Board of Directors
Kara Elverson Program Associate
Women’s Law Project
Development Assistant
Brenna Lynch
René Redwood
Adriana Londono Program Associate
CEO
Director of Major Gifts
Redwood Enterprise LLC
Rona Taylor
Leslie MacKrell National Women and AIDS Collective
Kathleen Stephansen
Senior Corporate and Foundation Organizer
Managing Director & Chief Economist
Relations Officer
Aladdin Capital Holdings LLC
Caitlin Murphy
Dorothy Q. Thomas
Development Database Associate
Independent Consultant
Sandra Perez
Verna Williams
Senior Development Officer
Professor of Law
Irene Xanthoudakis
Development Writer/Researcher

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Front Cover: Gina Womack and Damekia Morgan of
Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children.
December 2008

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